John and James Narrative Essay
"Hey John, Hay John" I called to my friend as he got off the train.
"Hey James, It's hard to find you in all these people" he replied.
"What do you mean, there's only 1,932,917 of them." I said sarcastically.
"Are you hungry?"
"Yeah I'm starving I could really go for a hamburger..."
"Wow, sorry, nothing like that here, here a meal consists of pork, veal,
chicken, or beef and salad and to finish it off they have some kind of
strudel."
"That sounds fine"
"I know a great place on the other side of the Brista"
"Brista? What's that?"
"It's a famous, huge mansion or manor as they call them."
After we went and got something to eat, which took a while because there
was only a couple of English speaking people due to the fact that the main
language is Slovenian. We went back to the hotel and got ready for practice.
We were here for the minor league world series for 18 and unders and when
they say world series they really mean world. When we got to the stadium the
rest of the guys were already there throwing around new Slovenian words they
had learned like "stara shena baba" which means old woman. Or "ti stara ina
urapua baba" which means you old wrinkled woman. Also "pesdet" which means
fact. One of the better things was"bukarida" which is library, and
"navarnaft" which is dangerous. The guys were also greeting each other in
the native way too, like in America. To shake hands and say "hello", or to
kiss each other on both cheeks and bow heads slightly.
Even during practice there were big crowds to see the world renown team
USA because baseball is a favorite there. But every time I went to sign
autographs the little kid's parents frowned at me and said something in
Slovanian but I just smiled and went on chewing my gum. Later I realized
that it was rude to chew gum in public. That's just one of their traditions.
Also I found out it's rude to wear a hat when you're sitting down. I also
found out that most of those people had to travel a ways because they lived
in rural areas.
Everywhere John and I went we saw pictures of this one man named Janez
Dronovesk, eventually John asked "who is this."
"that's the president"I told him
"The president?"
"Yep"
"you mean they have a democracy like us?"
"Not really, they have a parliamentary democratic republic which
is like it, except that the president here has a 5 year term."
"Well I think it's time we get back to the hotel and get some rest, we
have the championship game tomorrow and we want to be rested," said John.
In the morning we got up early and got to the stadium, along the way we
saw lots of people gong to church, with it being Sunday and all. The main
religion there is Roman Catholic, it said on the radio.
Well I'll just cut to the chase and tell you we ended up winning but just
barely. It was the bottom of the 12th, bases loaded, and John hit a massive
homerun to win it.
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