![]() Nothing of long pants, circumsision, university or living far from your parents. ![]() This is the only country in the world where the desicion of leaving childhood behind and start to become a man happens in a particular day. And if one day, theres lack of yerba, a neighbour have it and share you some. With inflation, with starvation, with military forces in power, with democracy, with any of our eternal plagues and curses. Yerba is the only thing there is in every house. Keyboards in Argentina have all the keys full of yerba. The people ask, when still there is no confidence: "¿Sweet or sour?"_. When you meet someone new, the fist time, you share some mates. Later, they, with the years will choose drinking it sour, sweet, too hot, tereré, with orange peels, with herbs, with a strickle of lemon. You feel a huge pride when a little one (Esquenuncito, slang) of your own blood starts sucking mate. You serve it warm, with lots of sugar, and they feel mature. When you have a son, you start giving them whenever they ask. It's the only thing in wich victims and executioners we look alike. ![]() Peronistas and Radicales they drink mate without asking. It's the only thing fathers and sons share without arguing or reproaching. Happens betwen elders in geriatrics and betwen teenagers while they study or get high. Happens between talkative and gossiping ladies, and happens between serious or inmature men. Whenever someone arrives to your house the first word is: "Hi!" then "¿ Do you want Mate?" Mate is exactly the opposite to TV, it makes you talk if you are in company,Īnd makes you think when you are in solitude. It's more like an habit, like scratching. ![]() In this country nobody drinks mate because is thirsty. It's a liquid and enters through the mouth.īut is not a beverage. ![]()
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