Tonight, after showering and taking a bath, I went into the living room as usual. My host mom was in her pajamas, sitting on the floor pillows. [They're called zabuton and there aren't couches here...just zabuton.] She looked up from watching TV and just said "Uparupa." very solemnly. It was the funniest moment. Uparupa is a silly word already, and it is the only thing she said, just "uparupa," so it made me giggle. I looked it up in the dictionary, but it wasn't there. She tried to describe it to me, but all we could establish was that it was a type of pet, and that the TV show was about an animal hospital. Finally, I looked it up on my computer.
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HAHA!!!
ReplyDeleteI think it's an Axolotl in english- an almost equally hilarious name :P
"It permanently retains its larval features" and I think it is considered edible in Mexico.
Julio Cortazar wrote a short story in Spanish on a magical encounter with one of them! Such a weird animal.
Um, Molly, you know about this fish????
ReplyDeleteB, is there a pillow called a zafu too?
Axolotl! That's the only animal known that can reproduce brain cells when it loses them.
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