The last post was fairly serious, and the next one will be as well, so in an effort to provide a little relief and avoid scaring you all away:
"¿Cómo te llamas?" Seems like a pretty simple question, no? Well, despite the fact that I'm fairly fond of the names I was given, the answer is up for grabs these days.
Let's start with the obvious: Adrienne
Welcome to a Spanish-speaking country, where the pronunciation of this is quite perplexing. Okay. Adriana it is.
Enter jefe, who has a propensity to shorten names. Adri (pronounced like Audrey) works too. Close enough.
Now, meet women's committees who can't seem to remember my name, no matter which one I use. They can remember though, probably due to the excessively large camera perpetually hanging around my neck, that I'm the photographer. Almost universally and unprompted, they decide that because of this, it is appropriate to call me "Tía Flash" (Aunt Flash).
I'm not so sure how I feel about that one...
Watch out . . . "Tia Flash", which is absolutely hilarious, might stick! And Adri (pronounced like Audrey), is kinda sweet too, since you'd then be named for your Grandma Audrey who died 5 years before you were born.
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