Summer and I packed up all of our stuff (that we are brining to California) and headed to the airport this morning. Eddie and his two girls are watching the house, the two dogs, the cat (name to be announced momentarily), the lawn, the new plants, the Bronco and the Toyota. Along with the above mentioned family we left in Puerto Rico, we will also be adding to our family the following: Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Squash, Potatoes, sunflowers, more grass and 8 meters of topsoil. Eddie loves plants and has a HUGE green thumb. We are so stoked.
I haven’t been out of Puerto Rico (aside from a short trip in June to California for court) since I moved down at the end of April. It feels a little weird to leave the island. Half of me would rather be going on a surf trip somewhere to relax than back to California, but Summer and I have tons of stuff we have to take care of in San Diego and she is getting me more and more excited with her talk of restaurants that have Non-Fried options on the menu, Whole Foods Grocery Store and Trader Joe’s.
Speaking of Food, I was told by the second rudest employee of Jet Blue I have ever met that Puerto Rican food is actually Spanish and that all Puerto Ricans are Spanish. She went on to denounce her being a Puerto Rican and claimed that she was Spanish because Puerto Rico speaks “Espanol”. This rude behavior is so typical of a NY flight attendant that hates her job. Summer said I should have asked her if Mexicans were Spanish too, after all, they speak Espanol. If I weren’t such a happy guy, I may have proverbially bitch slapped this grumpy Jet Blue Flight Attendant, but instead I let it go, plotting a new blog question to our readers…here goes:
If you were born and raised in Puerto Rico, are you Puerto Rican or Spanish?
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That Flight Attenand was either running low in Bacardi or had too much of it!
The families of both my parents came from the Canary Islands…we are / were all PRicans! we could care less about Spain and their silly king!
besides, not all PRican have Spanish origin…have you seen the huge African influence in the Island? I have friends of Irish, German, French and Lebanese descendance (don’t recall anyone not calling themselves PRicans!)….and every possible mixture in between thanks to all our multiple holidays and cheap rums! lol!
Yaaaa, I can’t wait to see you guys! Tomorrow is Gary’s Bday so maybe we could meet for dindin or a diff day when you are settled from trip.
Wow… that flight attendant was a beeeeatch. By her logic, I’m English even though my ancestry is from the north of Spain and I speak 4 languages.
Cor blimey, chocks away. tally ho!
Did you get her name, so I can avoid her next week when I fly Jetblue?
If one is born in Puerto Rico they are Puerto Rican not a Spaniard. Your dear flight attendant was abit off base. Puerto Rican culture is a hydrid culture–blending, at this point, indigenous cultural influences such as Guanimes and words such guraguao, hamaca, ceti,with common Spanish cultural practices and language from places on the Iberian peninsula such as Andalucia, Extremadura, Galicia, Catalu~a, and the Baleric Islands and the maratime provinces of the Canarys. Add to that a good measure of African influence in customs such mofongo, caldo santo, most frituras, a love of viandas, santeria, and words such as guingambo, in addition to a healthy dash of corsican, and a wonderful sprinkling of Frech, German, Hungarian, Irish, Croatian, Chinese–and hell I even have friends who grew up on the island who were part Vietnamese, others Filipino, one Sri Lankan, and yet another Korean. Heat all this is in an ever pulsing set of AMerican media infused telecomunications rays, and you have got yourself a good cross section of Puerto Rican. Spanish Puerto Ricans are not, yes we speak it, go to college there at times, and know many things spanish–yet a jamon serrano and a pastel are worlds away from each other. Puerto Ricans are Criollos, or as they say in New Orleans–Creoles. Forget pura raza a lo cholo stylee, in Puerto Rico most of us are poud to be puro sato. Puerto Rico a fuego y que viva la cafreria bromista.
Hi there. I’m a friend of Jamie’s from longboard.net. Answer is easy: Puertorican!
I never thought of myself as a Spaniard, I am puertoriqueña 100%. Hey I forgot who told me how to type the ñ, but I learn fast! I am glad it wasn’t us that had to put up with such behaviour, my husband does not handle nasty people very well.
Spaniards are from Spain silly rabbit.
Good to see Mario found your blog.
JK Surf Art
Great input from everyone! I really do like being right…I just wish it would happen more often.
Rosa - No joke. I’m glad I wasn’t there to witness this flight attendants shenanigans. I also don’t deal with BS very cordially. haha