I was riding the metro the other night when I overheard a couple speaking American English. They were trying to figure out when their stop was; knowing the metro pretty well, I asked them where they needed to get off, and it turned out to be the next stop.
They asked me, "Do you live here?"
I do live here for the semester (I got my residence permit a week ago!), so I said yes.
They then said, "Your English is very good."
Rather embarrassed at the misunderstanding, I said, "Well actually I'm American."
It turned out that they were here on a cycling tour (I assume they meant bicycling, because do they even make tricycles for adults?) and had just been in Bratislava. It also turned out that one member of the couple grew up in the same state that I'm from in America—and here we are, meeting in Budapest. What a huge small world.
Also, people need to pay attention to the difference between "living" and "being from".
1 comment:
Haha, classic
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