Teléfono

     I ask my fellow student Karen, "Did you hear Antonio's story about the Swiss student's experience in Guatemala where she saw a group of robbers shoot and kill the bus driver and she and all the passengers were stuck out in the jungle? Do you think she actually saw the shooting or that she just heard about it? "

            "Oh, is that what she was talking about?" Karen says. "She has that Swiss accent and she told me something about a bus in Guatemala and I could tell I was supposed to be impressed or scared, but I didn't know what she was talking about."

            Since the story had originally been told with a Swiss accent to a Korean student who later spoke it with his Korean accent into my untrained Irish/German American ear, I have a feeling that I am never going to get it quite right.  All I know is that Antonio is thinking about taking Guatemala off his itinerary.