Since I did not have much to do outside during Semana Santa, I had no problem spending my evenings in with Charo and Lourdes. Now, although they had a stack of DVDs sitting right next to the television, they only seemed to be interested in whatever nightly movie the television channels provided. It seems that they will settle for anything.
For example, on the first night we watched an awfully mediocre film called El manuscrito secreto, in Enlgish, The Bible Code. It was a terrible Davinci-Code spinoff that was so drawn-out and painful that I could not bring myself to finish it. Another night we watched Streetfighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Remember that these are all dubbed in Spanish. It was unclear to me why Charo and Lourdes wanted to watch these movies over the other ones they had brought. Perhaps they had already viewed the others twenty times each. I don’t know.
One show that I did enjoy watching with them was "Atrapar un millón", a trivia game show that goes through several rounds of questions, each round requiring the contestants to place money on whatever answer they think is correct. They may split the money among multiple answers if they are not sure which is the right one. Money placed next to wrong answers falls away into a bin underneath the platform the contestants stand upon, and money on the right answer is used for the next round. Eventually the contestants reach the final round and can keep the money that hasn’t been trapped by the wrong answers.
I like trivia, but I’ve decided that I should definitely not try out for this show because I did not know the answers to most of the questions due to popular culture differences. I did, however, answer correctly that Shrek was the monster who made candles out of his own earwax and that people from New Zealand are nicknamed Kiwis after the flightless bird native to their land. Neither Charo nor Lourdes knew those ones.
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