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The Selena Gomez Incident

4/16/2015

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A few years ago, I was taking Spanish 1 in middle school. Having lived in Peru for a few years in my youth, I was pretty fluent and the stuff there was pretty basic. Then one day, during our unit on adjectives, we had an activity where students would get called up to the board to complete a sentence with an adjective in Spanish. I got called up, and the sentence was "Selena Gomez es..." (Selena Gomez is...)
I couldn't pass up that opportunity to crack a joke. 
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For those of you who don't know, gaseosa means "gassy" in Spanish.
Well, the teacher's aide didn't think it was that funny, and he wrote an email to my dad about it. Now, my dad's not the most in the loop on pop culture and this kind of stuff. 
That night, my dad came looking grim-faced into my room and proceeded to give me the most loud and indignant chewing-out of my life. The entire time, I had absolutely no idea what the heck he was talking about, but I just stayed silent with fear and auditory overload. when he was through, I was close to tears, and as confused as I had ever been in my life.
He then went to compose an email to the school in apology for my behavior. I believe it went something like:
"I am very sorry about this. This kind of behavior is totally out of character for Colin. This will not happen again, and I will make sure Colin apologizes to Selena Gomez."
Turns out, my dad had no idea who Selena Gomez was, and he thought it was another student. Eventually, my mom explained it to him, and he had a pretty good laugh with the rest of us.
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Karuna
4/24/2015 02:04:02 pm

hilarious!!!!! so glad to have more to read from you Colin. I hope all is well.

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