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WHY I LIKE SPAIN SO MUCH (A radio interview with Brian Ard about his recent trip to Spain) In August of 1999 I went to Madrid, Spain, on my honeymoon with my wife, Miriam, who is Puerto Rican. She understood everything they said, but I only understood "no", "si", "cafeteria", and "muchos besos". I liked it so much because they were really friendly and liked to party. They don´t like to go to bed. Four o´clock in the morning there is like four in the afternoon here. In fact, you can´t find a cafeteria or a restaurant that has few people. They do drive fast over there. Everybody was passing us on the highway, and I saw a sign that said "120". I asked my cousin if "120" was miles per hour or not, if it was the maximum or minimum, and if there were any cops to stop people from driving so fast. Also, people liked me. I was driving slow, and a cop with a machinegun stopped me and asked me for my driving license. I only had my fishing license from Asturias, and he laughed a lot and let me go on driving. In Segovia, in a church, I saw a dead person, a saint probably, laying in a glass casket. He was decayed and nasty. It made me sick. So in Spain they leave some people in churches to die. The country is a little crazy, but a lot of fun. They are always celebrating something. They have all these statues for virgins, which is rather odd. We must have some virgins in the States, but we don´t make statues for them!

VOCABULARY (vocabulario)

interview	entrevista	driving license	permiso de conducir
honey moon	luna de miel	nasty	sucio
friendly	amigable	crazy	loco
to party (to have a good time)	pasarlo bien	to lay	tumbar
few	pocos	odd	( limpiar ) raro
sign	señal de tráfico	to go on	continuar
cousin	primo	rather	bastantes
cops	policia	the States	EE.UU