No veo la hora de volver a verte In Spanish, when you want to talk about doing something again, your Spanish textbook will mention these two options,

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No veo la hora de volver a verte

In Spanish, when you want to talk about doing something again, your Spanish textbook will mention these two options, "otra vez" and "de nuevo". 

There's absolutely nothing wrong with either of those two options, and you shouldn't hesitate to use them.

Here's an example:

No te voy a molestar de nuevo
I'm not going to bother you again

Nunca voy a hacer eso otra vez
I'm never going to do that again

This is where things get interesting.   There's a very good chance that you'll never hear a native speaker say either of those.

I wish I could see the deer in headlights look that I'm sure some of you have right now.  I bet it looks exactly like the one I had.  But getting back to the subject at hand, if a native speaker might not say "de nuevo" or "otra vez", then what would they say?

No te vuelvo a molestar
I'm not going to bother you again

Nunca vuelvo a hacer eso
I'm never going to do that again

It's extremely common to use "volver a" talk about doing something again.  Let's look at a some more examples to help you get the hang of it.

Rápidamente lo volví a llamar
I quickly called him back

Por favor, vuelve a introducir tu contraseña
Please enter your password again

No me digas que fuiste por el hielo, las cocas, mas ron y se te volvio a olvidar el limon
Don't tell me you went for the ice, the cokes, more rum and you forgot the lime again?

Cultural tip:  Notice I translated limon as lime.  That's because if you go to any Spanish speaking country and ask for a "limon" you'll get what we call a lime.  I touched on this in another post, which you can read about here.  You'll also learn how to order one of my favorite cocktails in Spanish.

Decidí volver a llamar
I decided to call again

Nunca más volveré a enamorarme
I will never fall in love again

And at this point I'm guessing you can easily translate the title of this post.  Or at least half of it.

No veo la hora de volver a verte
I can't wait to see you again

"No veo la hora"  might have thrown you for a loop, but if you got it right, you just earned yourself some extra credit.

¡Ya¡  Our work is done for today.

Hasta pronto.

¡Arriba, abajo, al centro, pa' dentro! Personally, I consider this piece of Spanish a "must know". Maybe that's because I spend so much time in bars when I go to Mexico, but that's another story, albeit related.

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This blog is a collection of the things I learn from talking with native Spanish speakers on my quest to become bilingual. No grammar, no verb conjugations, no "book" Spanish - just real Spanish I learn from real conversations.

¡Arriba, abajo, al centro, pa' dentro!

Personally, I consider this piece of Spanish a "must know".  Maybe that's because I spend so much time in bars when I go to Mexico, but that's another story, albeit related.

It's pretty much a worldwide custom to make a toast while you have a few drinks friends or celebrate a special occasion.  In America, we say "cheers", as you well know.  But in Spanish, you say ¡salud!

But personally, I find that particular toast a bit plain, which brings us to the topic of today's post.

¡Arriba, abajo, al centro, pa' dentro!

There's no real translation that I'm aware of, this is just something you memorize and say it right before you slam down your favorite tequila, or whatever your drink of choice is.

So here's how it works, so pay close attention (fijense bien) because the physical mechanics of this toast are crucial.  OK, maybe crucial is a bit much, but the motions come with the phrase.

At each step, be sure to "clink" or touch glasses.

"Arriba" (glass held high, you touch the rim of your glass)
"Abajo" (glass held low, you touch the bottom of your glass)
"Al centro" (glass held out in front, touch the middle of your glass)
"Pa' dentro or Adentro" (drink from glass immediately, bottoms up!)

Simple, right?  Well, I say you head to the closest cantina (bar) and practice this until you get it right.

¡Cuidense amigos!

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So we are in Puerto Escondido .. the home of Mexican Pipeline (one of the world´s most famous big wave spots), so maybe it shouldnt come as too much of a surprise that it is quite difficult to find a more mellow wave more suitable to my and the Wo´s abilities. It was this fact and the realisation there are no good mellow waves nearby that caused us to be feeling a bit down about the place. 

It is however by far the most touristy place we have yet been, there are lots of gringos all over the beach. (I was starting to think no-one really came to Mexico), at night it does have a bit of a dodgy vibe (the girl staying at our hostel had her iphone taken by a threating knife weilding hombre), but during the day it seems ok. 

The hostel we are staying in is more like a bunch of shacks, spent my first night ever sleeping under a mosquito net .. and had a surprisingly good sleep.  

15 years in a hammock

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I recently met this lovely wise man in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. He suggested that I might want to visit where he lives; in a lagoon 30 minutes out of town… off we went. He took great pleasure in showing me around. Of course the place looked magical. What was most impressive and contributed to an unusual and very soothing atmosphere was the intensity of the silence. There were some exotic birds and apparently crocodiles & snakes live there too. What was most impressive & interesting was him, Margarito! A unique character with a big heart and so much wisdom. He has been living in his hammock for 15 years. He moves it depending on how he feels like, from one side of this huge lagoon, to the other. If it gets too hot, he just parks his canoe in the middle of the lagoon and sleeps there. He doesn’t fish in the lagoon, avoiding contributing to the issue of overfishing. He spends his nights reading philosophy and learning new languages, using his lamp torch. I visited his house, the largest house there is on earth according to him: the whole lagoon.

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On March 25, 2009 during a show in Montreal on Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed Tour, Stevie Nicks gave a short history of the inspiration behind Gypsy. She explained it was written sometime in 1978-79, when the band had become "very famous, very fast," and it was a song that brought her back to an earlier time, to an apartment in San Francisco where she had taken the mattress off her bed and put it on the floor. To contextualize, she voiced the lyrics: "So I'm back, to the velvet underground. Back to the floor, that I love. To a room with some lace and paper flowers. Back to the gypsy that I was." Those are the words: 'So I'm back to the velvet underground' — which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff — 'back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was.'

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The Day of the Dead, La Feria del Alfeñique and Strange Mexican Candies OCT 29

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I have a modest personal mission to eat all things strange in Mexico. So far I’m doing pretty well – aside from strange delicious things like Chiles en Nogada, I’ve had strange nasty things like Tacos de Sesos (brain tacos), Chapulines (fried crickets), and chicken-spine soup. I haven’t yet tried Tacos de Cran (cow dick) and I’m not sure I will

Eating strange things is a little like the old philosophical idea about knowledge: the more you acquire, the less you realize you actually know. So I’ve given up my hope of eating strange things from all around the world, though I’ve done pretty well so far with Balut in the Philippines (a chicken embryo inside a hard-boiled egg), San-Nak-Ji in Korea (still-living, moving octopus tentacles), and raw jellyfish in China.

But my true mission is to eat strange in Mexico, and not strictly disgusting things. So what better way to get closer to my obviously unattainable goal than by visiting the Feria del Alfeñique in central Toluca, a five-minute walk from my apartment.

The Day of the Dead takes place on Nov. 2nd. It’s a celebration where Mexicans remember their dead relatives by placing a shrine in their homes full of fruit, sweets, and sometimes booze. If Grandpa used to like a special tequila or whiskey, then in the shrine it goes – along with Grandma’s favorite snacks and candies.

What’s even cooler is that at night they visit the cemetery, sometimes sleeping there. I haven’t yet made a cemetery visit. Maybe I’ll get a chance but for now I’m enjoying the food associated with the event.

The month before the Day of the Dead about a hundred vendors set up in the Portales and sell all things related to the holiday. This is the Feria del Alfeñique, a great way to sample cool, strange Mexican candies. Even if they look a little weird, they are still covered in sugar and will probably taste good.

It seems like anything can be candied. The green things on the right in the picture below are candied nopales, large cactus leaves:

Here are limones stuffed with coconut. You eat the whole thing:

There’s quite a bit of variety in the stands. You can buy candy by the kilo:

This stuff is good:

And of course don’t forget the sugar skulls:

Notice the chocolate bones on the left:

The stands run through all three sides of the portales. You can spend plenty of time checking out each stand, sampling the odd things and getting a good stomachache.

Aside from candies you can also get a lot of little craft things. My favorites are the calavaritas, little skull figures. They are great gifts, buy the one doing the job or activity of your friend:

Maybe like me you are too busy to visit a cemetery on the Day of the Dead, but if you are near Toluca the month beforehand then you can get a taste, literally, of the tradition right here in the center of town.

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Ted Campbell writes about travel, culture, music, food, and mountain biking. He lives in Mexico and writes a blog called No Hay Bronca. http://nohaybronca.wordpress.com/

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