Mundo Lingo

Every Wednesday a bar hosts 'Mundo Lingo.' Mundo Lingo is advertised for people between 18 and 30 to get together in order to make new friends and practice speaking languages.  When you arrive, they give you stickers for the languages you know.  You are supposed to place the stickers at the relative height of your competence. Some people had up to 5 stickers. 3 was average and 4 was not uncommon.

Tony, a CBYXer, is great at German and is able to put the German flag near the American flag.  I had my Mexican flag and the German flag very low on my shirt.

People see the flags you have, and walk up and talk to you in one of your flag languages.

The conversations pretty much go:

"Oh, you know [ ] as well, are you from [ ]? Why did you have to learn [ ] ? Why are you in Germany [ ]? Yeah, German is really hard. I miss the food from [ ]. Have you noticed [ ] about germany/germans yet? Yeah this place is more crowded than a Katy Perry concert, lets go outside and buy a beer from the corner store."

There were over a hundred people at the event and hanging around outside.  I thought it was an awesome idea and got to know some classmates and other CDC students better, as well as meet new people.  I also found out that learning German has thoroughly confused my Spanish.