A BIT ABOUT ME

So all over Spain people stopped me to see if I was Italian, very odd. I had no idea that I looked so Italian but apparently the Spanish people thought I did. The first time I was asked was while sitting at a café with a few friends. We were drinking some wine and eating bread (I know so European I felt so cool!!!) and he came up to the table and asked me in Spanish something something Italian? And my response was “Oui Oui” As most of you know I took French in high school and college and French and Spanish sound similar so all over Spain I was getting confused and busting out my French on accident. My table went into an uproar of laughter and then I realized what I had said. Embarrassed I turned to the Spanish man and said “Ci Ci” by that time he too was laughing at me, oh well. Everyone on the boat thinks I have such a strong accent! I don’t hear it obviously but everyone else does! Whenever I first meet someone they immediately ask me where I am from and I say Chicago and there response is ahh I knew it! I am like huh how did you know? I feel so stupid every time I order a pop on the ship the person working looks at me like I am crazy! Twice now I have ordered a pop and the person behind me corrects me and says, “She means a soda”. Who knew us Midwesterners had such funny accents and strange lingo!I have been trying really hard to upload my pictures but it just isn’t working!!! I will try in my next port to upload some from Spain. Well now I am off to Morocco to see some snake charming and storytelling! I’ll update when I return.