You look like Cinderella, I said to Josefina.
Cindy who ?, said she as she looked up from scrubbing the concrete stairs in the building with a brush and a bucket of water.
Oh, said I, Cinderella the fairytale, you know. Sorry, I don't know what it is called in Spanish.
Never had time to read, grumbled Josefina.
Well, this is a fairytale for children, something you read at night before they go to sleep...
Always busy to work, said Fina, always I work, all day and all night. Never read no Cindy books.
In desperation I turned to Yose and asked what Cinderella was in Spanish and in rapid Spanish he said
Well, I don't remember the name but Fina, there is this beautiful girl with an awful stepmother who has two ugly daughters and then they all got to a ball and wear these gorgeous dresses and jewels and high heels and she meets this super handsome prince and they dance and they fall in love and.........
by this time Josefina was back scrubbing the stairs muttering that she never read no fairytale book, only work and work and work.
I went home and found that Cinderella in Spanish is Cenicienta but even knowing that I am sure Josefina would deny ever hearing of this fairy tale.
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Every year we watch Cinderella on danish TV.
The kids love it when we are reading Cinderella, Snowwhite and all kinds of fairytales.
Sometimes we forget how fortunate we are, having time to read all kinds of books. Our kids were only few years, when they were told all about "Niels Holgersen" - "Emil fra Lønneberg" and a lot of Grimms and H.C. Andersen. My daughter never felt for reading, but my son - wow. 12 year old he read "Harry Potter" later on "Lords of the rings". Now he's reading lots of fantasy that I don't recall the names of. My wife is a pasioned reader aswell, sometimes i find that we owns books that ain't to find in the libery. And my self - i read all the fairytales of how to make IT work. Funny but books fills our lifes, and for some they are as the clouds in the sky, not reachable.
Hola! Alan,
I love your stories, I think my recent favorite is the about the phone and waiting for the locals to come out and fix it. Oh, Mexico, it is like Island time. I even have my girls read your blog now and then too, sometimes it is just too mature for them to understand. Thanks for posting!
Love,
Cindy
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