One Sunday in the summer, Senora Olivia and two friends took him to the funfair on the Liberator Avenue.
We thanked her again, shook hands and took one more picture before heading on our way to the police department where we were required to register our visas, my understanding of Chilean people's attitude toward their country's past slightly muddier than before Senora Carmen and I began to talk.
A sinister looking chap called Cult Leader Asshole – a sort of pope – hangs about, while haughty senoras dance, and another gaggle of troupers, some with their foam-rubber, pipe-lagging entrails, make an incomprehensible appearance.
"A Lady Kinematograph Operator: Some facts about Senora Spencer" Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly ( 17 Oct. 1907): 393.
The Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha and her load of treasure, bound for Spain, sank in a hurricane in 1622 in the Gulf of Mexico.
So it went, in another rapid-fire Spanish lesson at Johnson Elementary School, where second graders take 15 minutes of Spanish instruction every day and Senora, as all the pupils call Mrs. Alfaro, speaks nary a word of English.
The team's marine archaeologist, Jim Sinclair, said: "Finding the Elizabeth and Delight near where Sir Francis Drake is buried is as exciting to me as helping discover the (Spanish galleon, Nuestra Senora de) Atocha and diving the RMS Titanic". The expedition focused on Portobelo Bay after hiring London-based researcher Trevor McEniry to pinpoint areas where the ships might have gone down.
In post-position order, this is the lineup: Buryyourbelief, Alex Solis riding; Pink Slipper, Bill Shoemaker; Very Subtle, Pat Valenzuela; Akron, Laffit Pincay; Timely Assertion, Gary Stevens; You Make Me Happy, Corey Black; and Senora, Chris McCarron.
Fifty years since the neighbor ran to her door, knocked and said, "Senora, senora, algo malo ha ocurrido".
And Georgina, the senora who taught me the value of dressing for dinner, giving gifts and being charitable to starving students.
