English clown in town
I know it's been a few days but I can't help but keep thinking of the disaster that was the halloween party in the village.
It was meant to be a fun evening with entertainment and a competition for the kids and their costumes. It all started well, we had some friends round, we dressed all the kids up, did a spot of trick-or-treating and then headed off into the village for the "party".
All was going well until "Boco the clown" appeared on the scene. We've seen Boco in action before at a friends daughter's party and we weren't at all impressed, in fact I hate to say it but he's a pretty awful clown. So you can imagine how surprised we were to see him again here although we didn't know exactly what he was going to be doing.
A little later things begin and we're told that Boco will be doing an hour show!! Oh my! What have they done, we thought to ourselves. Anyway, we decided to give him another chance...but it didn't last long. After addressing the kids in English and then Italian (useful) he then proceeded to do the entire show in English.
I have never felt so embarrassed in my life. We had to leave. I could see the Spanish were getting edgy as it soon became obvious that this most unfunny clown wasn't going to speak in Spanish at all...as he doesn't know any only a bit of Italian! And why a clown at a halloween party anyway????
After compaints from the Spanish somebody had to get up on stage and translate everything he said which made the whole show even worse. We were long gone by then, we went and had some "montaditos" to eat at a local bar.
Normally the "fiestas" in Manilva are excellent. I think I know who organised the halloween one but I'm not going to mention names here. But what has this done for cementing the relationship between the English and Spanish here? The next day all the parents we're talking about it at the school. It's just not on.
Whatever anyone says the reality is that the Spanish keep themselves to themselves as do the English. Most English here speak so little Spanish that they don't stand a hope in hell of integrating and forming relationships with the Spanish. The Spanish already feel "invaded" to an extent with the number of English here, and the consequential rise in house prices which puts property out of range for the average Spaniard, so what could only be described as a farcical halloween party can only have helped to increase some of the bad feeling towards the English.
Let's hope the next fiesta lives up to it's name.
It was meant to be a fun evening with entertainment and a competition for the kids and their costumes. It all started well, we had some friends round, we dressed all the kids up, did a spot of trick-or-treating and then headed off into the village for the "party".
All was going well until "Boco the clown" appeared on the scene. We've seen Boco in action before at a friends daughter's party and we weren't at all impressed, in fact I hate to say it but he's a pretty awful clown. So you can imagine how surprised we were to see him again here although we didn't know exactly what he was going to be doing.
A little later things begin and we're told that Boco will be doing an hour show!! Oh my! What have they done, we thought to ourselves. Anyway, we decided to give him another chance...but it didn't last long. After addressing the kids in English and then Italian (useful) he then proceeded to do the entire show in English.
I have never felt so embarrassed in my life. We had to leave. I could see the Spanish were getting edgy as it soon became obvious that this most unfunny clown wasn't going to speak in Spanish at all...as he doesn't know any only a bit of Italian! And why a clown at a halloween party anyway????
After compaints from the Spanish somebody had to get up on stage and translate everything he said which made the whole show even worse. We were long gone by then, we went and had some "montaditos" to eat at a local bar.
Normally the "fiestas" in Manilva are excellent. I think I know who organised the halloween one but I'm not going to mention names here. But what has this done for cementing the relationship between the English and Spanish here? The next day all the parents we're talking about it at the school. It's just not on.
Whatever anyone says the reality is that the Spanish keep themselves to themselves as do the English. Most English here speak so little Spanish that they don't stand a hope in hell of integrating and forming relationships with the Spanish. The Spanish already feel "invaded" to an extent with the number of English here, and the consequential rise in house prices which puts property out of range for the average Spaniard, so what could only be described as a farcical halloween party can only have helped to increase some of the bad feeling towards the English.
Let's hope the next fiesta lives up to it's name.
posted by Eye on Spain at 8:41 PM
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