The Brazilian house mate, Mariana, is in the process of learning Spanish and so she hasn't learned how to conjugate verbs correctly. Also, she can't pronounce certain letters without some effort. One of the words that she absolutely cannot say correctly is our Peruvian house mate's name, Rayme (Ri-me). Instead, she says "Drymer."
One day, Ale and Ely got a huge laugh because Mariana was wondering where Rayme was and said, "¿Dónde estás Drymer?" This was funny for the 2 reasons mentioned above. Number one she said his name wrong and number 2 because essentially she was calling Ale and Ely "Drymer" by using estás (the direct form of "are you") instead of está (the indirect form of "are you"). But it was even more funny because of the way she said it. She had a concerned high pitched voice and a look of inquisition. It made for immediate mimicing and soon everyone in the house was saying "¿Dónde estás Drymer?"
It was only fitting that we make a movie about it and though it is probably only funny to us, I'm posting here anyway. We also tried to include some other common sayings around the house like "O sea", "Obvio" and "¿Y que?" Heh heh. Hope you get some laughs.
that's awesome Chin, looks like you are having a blast over there!
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