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Game Night
By Scott & Sherry | April 12, 2008
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One Saturday evening we had three of the single young people from church over to our house for dinner and some games. It was our way of thanking of one of them, Roger, for coming to our house every Saturday to practice Spanish. The night started with some Mexican food (we checked with them first to see if they were up for it!) then we got out one of the card games we had brought with us from the US.
We had only played Dutch Blitz once before, when our good friends, the Essers, from KC taught us to play it two years ago. We had some difficulty remembering how to play it, so we had the ultimate language task of reading the instructions in English and interpreting them in Spanish to teach our friends how to play. It took us about 30 minutes to finally convey the rules correctly (our confusion, not theirs!), and then we played for several hours. At the end of each game when a player wins the round, he is suppose to shout out “Blitz!”. We quickly learned that this word is challenging for a Spanish speaker to say. Needless to say, we all had a great time and some really good laughs!
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