From Hungary to Florida: A Skype Story
Blogged by Jordon Kalilich, 15, in Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA.
The other day I got a call on Skype from what sounded like a group of Hungarian students. At first, when the Skype Answering Machine (SAM) took over the call, I heard them speaking in Hungarian. I took control of the call and asked if they spoke English, and to my surprise, I heard a "Yes." They sounded like they were in their teens; there were at least two girls and a guy. They went on to ask me some questions about myself, and after each reply, there was some Hungarian jabbering as if they were trying to translate what I had said and figure out how to reply.
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One of the girls asked, "What is she doing?" I asked what she meant, and she corrected herself: "What are you doing?" I said I was doing my homework. They asked me if I liked, basketball. I said I didn't, and that I wasn't into sports much. Their reply: "Do you no esport man? I don't like you." (Joking, obviously.) They asked me if I had any hobbies. I said I played the guitar. The guy said, "You are rock star!" I replied, "I wish." Then the guy asked, "Have good girl?" "Uh, no," I said. He replied, "This is horrible!"It's horrible enough that I don't, but when people in Europe have to rub it in my face...
At that point one of the girls chimed in. "The Hungarian girls is very pretty woman." The other girl, who seemed to have a better grasp of the language, asked me if I had a Commodore (?). I think they wanted an e-mail address or an instant messenger screen name. Later, the guy said, "We are going to a disco tonight, goodbye." At the time it was 10:45 P.M. in Hungary (I looked it up), but I shrugged off that fact and said goodbye. At least they had someone to practice their English with. I'd talk to them again; they were a charming bunch.
Comments
I had a similar call from Russia - bunch of guys had a good joy trying to communicate with me :D
Maybe when they mentioned Commodore they were thinking about Commodore 64 - the best 8-bit home computer ever (will it begin a flame war?).
Staying in 'Skype me' mode gives a lot of fun...
Posted by: Tomasz Tybulewicz | May 28, 2005 01:52 PM