Joanna Biggar's Blog

Other Charms of CPI Flaming

 It seems that at our language school, CPI, there is a tradition of a “culture week” which ends in some kind of fiesta every fourth week. We hit this phenomenon in Flamingo, and the theme was “arts of Latin America.”

    What this really meant was a bunch of foreigners making fools of themselves in Spanish. But in good Tico style, a good time was had by all.

   There were several incomprehensible poems, a few good pantomime/dance numbers, some Latin dancing (check Doug doing samba) and Joanna, ahem, singing! But with other voices to drown me out, and in Spanish, my performance did not match the lullabys I used to sing that made my babies cry.

Dancin' Doog-las

     The real hit, though, was Bernadette, my teacher, whom Doug rightly dubbed a sort of Latina Queen Latifa. In a duet with an unpleasant loud-mouth gringo, she pantomimed a ripper of a Latin love song in which Don Juan was definitely put in his place. Think Queen Latifa in “Chicago.” Doug fell instantly in love!

Joanna & Bernadette, a.k.a. Queen Latifa