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marina-sarrias's avatar

I resonate so much with your experience! I was born in Spain from a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but I spent most of my life in Costa Rica. Although my accent is totally Costa Rican, I was always too Spanish to be Latina and too Latina to be Spanish. Fortunately I didn't experience the language barrier that separated your life into two parallel worlds - it must have been so hard!. I don't know about you, but every time someone asks me where I'm from I feel like entering fetal position and shouting _next question_.

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Emily Hubbard's avatar

hahaha, yes!!! Every time someone asks me where I'm from I have no idea what to say, I'm always like "where do I start?" and I guess in the end that shows that we're a total mix and that's cute too, but yeah, it's hard to explain to others :')

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Shalenah's avatar

Thank you for sharing your experience! I used to teach English in Spain so it was always interesting seeing students with different backgrounds growing up Spanish. What part of Andalucía did you live in?? I

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Emily Hubbard's avatar

That’s cool!! I lived in el Campo de Gibraltar en la provincia de Cádiz 😊 Then I lived in Málaga centro where I went to university. How about you?

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Shalenah's avatar

No me digas me preguntaba if you were near Campo de Gibraltar!! Viví en San Roque por un año! I taught English at José Cadalso ☺️ that was my first experience with Spanish culture and I’m so glad. Después Cádiz viví en Graná luego Galicia

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Emily Hubbard's avatar

Dios!!!!! Yo fui al Jose Cadalso jajajaja - what are the chances!!!!! That’s actually crazy! I was there 2015 I think and did bachillerato there. Granada is precioso y Galicia no lo conozco tanto. Qué guay!!!!

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Shalenah's avatar

Omgggg what a crazily small world!! I worked there 2019-2020. Some of my colleagues were definitely your teachers (Como Alberto de geografía y LaLa jaja). So crazy!!

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Emily Hubbard's avatar

Hahahaha, yeah I know them both, wow how crazy and how cool. The world is so small :´)

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