The Seville Fair takes place just two weeks after Semana Santa, in a huge area in Los Remedios, to the south-west of the city, next to the river. This is a week of serious dancing, drinking, eating and socialising, with late nights - or all-nighters - the norm. The sheer size of the April Fair's spectacle is extraordinary. From around midday until early evening - especially on Tuesday, the first official day - Sevilla society parades around the fairground in carriages or on horseback. There are also daily bullfights , generally considered the best of the season.
What are casetas and what happens in them?
The "Real de la Feria", where the Feria takes place, covers 1.2 km2 and includes the amusement park, `called ´Calle de Infierno' (Hell Street), and the casetas, canvas tent pavillions of varying sizes arranged along 12 streets. Numbering over 1,000, they belong to eminent local families, groups of friends, businesses, clubs, trade associations and political parties. Most of the casetas are private and open only to members and their guests. If you have a Sevillano friend with a caseta, you could be lucky enough to receive a much-coveted invite. Alternatively, there are also seven public casetas - the "caseta municipal" and one for each of six districts of Seville.
Inside the tents the drinks begin to flow, and tapas are served, from around 1:30pm till early next morning. Each caseta is equipped with a bar, kitchen and sound system or live entertainment playing Sevillanas . This is the official genre of folk music in Seville, which has its own set dance. It's worth taking a few classes before the Feria so you don't have to be a wallflower.
As a non-native, pay attention to how the authentic "Sevillanos" (natives of Seville) pace themselves in order to make it full-force right through to the end. Also, a little effort goes a long way - whatever your level of Spanish, make sure you use it (again, why not brush up a little before going, by taking some classes). You´re a guest at their party, so express your appreciation by joining in!
Have you ever felt a "guiri" anywhere? Tell me 200 words.
if I stop to think about it, I think I've never felt like a foreigner, whenever I traveled overseas step outside of Spain I have been accompanied by native friends in each place, which will inform you and counting constumbres to feel it more integrated as possible. It is true that sometimes some natives may look weird or you yourself you can feel out of place, but this is not something that happens very often I thank God because I am a very shy child and I do not like to draw attention . I also think it depends on the country you want to go or where you want to spend your vacation, it is important when it comes to feel a foreigner, because not all countries are equally accustomed to the visit, depending on whether these countries living from tourism or if they are more self-sufficient. The best way to not feel a Maguire is knowing and adapting to the customs of the country that we visit.
ResponderEliminarI believe that to feel foreigner is very easy, and you do not be in another country foreigner to feel yourself, for example, not for going away to living abroad to work or to study you have feel foreigner, because also you can feel like in house in other places, even to do a group of friends there. In the same way that you do not have feel like in house in the same place of birth, for example, you can feel foreigner living in the same city where you have lived through the whole life if you live through an environment different to which you are accustomed to living, for example, you try to change of family or simply to going with people who is different from you, and observe his way of life, you will see that it is very different whom you take and you will feel foreigner. I have never felt foreigner anywhere because my environment is always the same at the large of my life but I think that in the future I will feel foreigner because in the life you couldn´t feel always like in the city born and I think that this will happen in the near future
ResponderEliminarI have to say I've felt a foreigner auntentic when two summers ago , for the silver anniversary of my parents were on a cruise in the Mediterranean . Everything was fantastic , great facilities and excellent treatment but when it comes to asking for things , the situation was difficult, because almost no one spoke Spanish and cruise visitors were foreigners who spoke only English or Italian , so very difficult to try to strike up a conversation with them, and that neither they nor Spanish well handled excellently us the English . But the truth is that had it not worse, since QE was an amazing journey that really enjoyed it and visited many amazing places like Dubrovnic with its spectacular beaches and the Blue Mosque and the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, where bought many things including rugs and tapestries typical of this place. Also a place that was Venice charm us , but again we were a bit isolated because of language ... but we had a lot of trouble to visit him and know him well.
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Luis Venegas Perez 1ºC
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I felt a giri when I went to Ireland because there the people are very different to Spanish people, for example there the people always are educated and they don’t noise. Also in Ireland the people always comply with the laws although there is not any policeman near.
In Ireland all are more cheap than Spain and one thing that I cannot imagine is that there the people when they go to by any think and the shop is close. The seller placed at the door some products like a new with one bottle and the people take a new and put the correspondent money in the bottle, this for me was impossible, this and much more things did that I felt a giri in Ireland because this culture is absolutely different to the Spanish culture.
I once felt like a foreigner in the exhibition in Cordoba . I am from Sevilla but I have friends in Córdoba and last year invited me to his house to spend a few days there and enjoy the show from there. Although we are both fair Andalusian their lives differently than ours and do different things to us at the time.
ResponderEliminarFor example young people often remain there together before drinking alcohol before going to the fair in Seville but we usually go to the booths and be there all day. In Córdoba youth not dance Sevillanas and in Sevilla dance Sevillanas is essential to fair . Also differs in dresses and flower in Córdoba is usually next to the ear and usually put Sevilla overhead . Apart from these little habits streets and places are different from Sevilla and I felt like a `` foreigner '' there because people asked me about places and things of Córdoba and I knew what they were talking me .
Luckily I was with my friends and I did not miss anything or step and thanks to that I could enjoy the show.
Rosa Moreno Damas 2ºA.
ResponderEliminarI have felt like a “guiri” when I traveled to other countries or even when I've been in other cities in Spain. I remember once when I was younger I went with my parents on a trip to Cuenca in summer, after visiting other cities of our country.
We visited many monuments, museums and typical sites of cities. The truth is that we hadn’t planned to visit Cuenca, but as we had more time than we expected, my parents thought it would be interesting to know Cuenca, because people spoke highly of it and its "hanging houses".
Then we got there to stay two or three days. We looked for a hotel where we could stay and we went to visit the old town. When we arrived, we ate in the square where the cathedral was, waiting to to visit in the afternoon.
Suddenly we realized that there were many people coming to the square. When we left the restaurant the place was full of people with colored shirts and drinking lots of wine and red. Seeing that it was very rare, we asked someone what was happening. Then he told us they were the parties in town, and it was fun. I guess my parents were left with a face of astonishment and they felt really guirirs like me. However, we enjoyed a very happy and fun party full of young people and adults, and when they released the heifer around the old part of the city.
Guiri is a word which describe people who is confusing about customs of another country and they don’t understand very well the way of life the country which they are visiting. Any person can become a guiri if he doesn’t adapt the situation that he is living at this moment, for example, English people go to Spain on holidays and they don’t mind to be ridiculous in their clothes, language and other types of things.
ResponderEliminarThe first time I went to London I felt a guiri because I didn’t know the language very well and I had any problems to ask and to understand them. However, I tried to adapt and improve every day practising and not having fear to be ridiculous, so that I felt very well when people understood and I knew to speak more or less to communicate with them.
The only thing that I had a real problem was with the food, because the times to have breakfast, lunch and dinner were totally different from my country and it almost makes me crazy. Finally I got to feel like an English person, even eat their typical foods.
From my point of view, felling a guiri is not important because the most important is travelling and knowing countries, their customs and new people.
Honestly I do love to travel, but unfortunately my family were supporters plan trips. So the few trips I've ever cast I have felt a'' guiris'' perhaps because the home country if they consider me one of them and can talk to me as we speak when foreigners come here. As in my case I have never felt ¨guiris'' if I have something my friend told me. My friend told me that when I travel with their parents to a country that I recall, I felt like people around rumereaban their dress, and even laughed as obserbó. But with such situations, it is best to take chest and be proud of your country and your habits.
ResponderEliminarThey seem to have made this bolgso for me. Countless times I have felt a foreigner in many places , which at first I aprece funny, even when repeated may annoy quite a bit . When I go to the beach and walk through the bars, always people who give bids me speak in English , because they think I am English , even having already gone through the bar, back has passed and again I have been speaking in English . Also when I go out with my friends partying , and we walk and we saw that bar my friends always talk about is Spanish but I'm more paragraph, you talk to me in English , which my friends is quite fun . But I have come to go from Seville walking along a normal day and people selling bus rides or anything speak to me in English in my own city , which bothers me because if a little overwhelmed and wondering if I really I look like a foreigner in my own city . Also of the most funny situations that happened to me was when I went to Ireland one summer to a house of a family when you get home and introduced me to all children and other family members believed it was in central Europe and not Spanish because it was they said that the Spanish were dark
ResponderEliminarI have felt a guiri one time when I went to England and I was not quite sure of what people was doing. I was not familiar with some habits or the clothes. I went to a party with friends from the language exchange course and most people came from England and everybody knew what to do and what to say. I had to be looking at people and how they behaved to learn the way to act and not to look a stranger or out of the place. The food was different and the way people shared it was a bit different from Spain too. Everybody is a stranger or a guiri everywhere apart form their country because social rules change form place to place and you have to get used to new traditions and behaviours.
ResponderEliminarA ''guiri'' is a foreigner who is not from where you are and knows nothing about the country
ResponderEliminarMany times I have felt like a'' guiri'' especially when traveling on vacation with my parents or with my friends, because you do not know anything about this place or culture or what they usually do every day.
There are places where people are very mean, and when ask them about where somewhere is, they reply you with a rude face and bad manners because they despise the ''guiri''. For example in England they are like this, which I think is bad because tourism is very important especially for the economy, and more if it is Spain that saves us from the crisis.
Speaking of tourism and the amount of ''guiri'' that exist in our country, Americans and Japanese traveling more to Barcelona and Madrid, but the French, Germans and British tend to go more to the coastal areas, such as South, because of the sun, the beach and because they are young.
I've been able to travel a lot thanks to my parents that is how to explain the feeling or that thought when we are in another place is not our city or place of origin. It's something very rare and difficult to explain, well really you when you are in another place you don't feel "guiri" is more your continuous telling other people, who reside there because it is their city, "touristy". But we don't see that the "foreigners" are we really since we are living in his town.
ResponderEliminarSo called in colloquial Spanish foreign, especially European or North American. According to the DRAE, guiri is an apocope of the Basque guiristino, cristino, name with which the Carlists designated supporters of the reina Cristina and the Liberals. Use quoted to tourists could come from there or from guiri-gay, Word that identifies the "dark and difficult to understand language", according to the SAR, as the speaking foreigners.
This word I do not anything like me because it is a derogatory adjective for foreign people like the word moro for Muslims the which originated when the Muslims entered our Iberian Peninsula.
The truth is that every year there are more 'giris' but that does not mean it's bad news, just the opposite that enrich us economically money being spent in our city well into the show or out of it. my truth I do not care who has always spins around me, provided they comply with all my customs and my city. if it is true that this year and seen by many actual show foreign people, but it is also true that always looked out of the stands, on the streets. one day in my house being entered one giri short dress and my name much attention and really did not feel bad, because if you feel comfortable with us and especially Seville with our customs, perfect. I hope it has served my answer to your question.
ResponderEliminarI felt being a guiri when I have been one year in america . The year I studied one year in America to learn English , to get to the first day of school everyone was looking at me with puzzled face, as who I was thinking that I had never seen before. Upon entering my first classes all children approached me to ask me things like that where it was, and that is what he did there. I felt the center of attention at school, but both a foreigner authentic , all that time reminded me of when my old school came some child from another country, when you start feeling foreigner is when everywhere you go, hallucinate , is like a new world that you had not been before, and when people in the street and heard you speak Spanish not stop looking at you. At first it's a situation a little uncomfortable , knowing that everyone looks at you, this slope you, and make you a thousand questions all about you, but when you get used to it like you were there lived all avid l , but not nicknamed foreigner is removed, even though you know perfectly master the language and you feel at Spain , you're still in another country with different customs and it is called guiri
ResponderEliminarThe truth is that I have had the good fortune to travel to many places, and on many occasions I've felt a foreigner because I did not know the language and I have visited all museums and cathedrals and sites that tourists visit. Two years ago in Germany I didn't know German and therefore spoke in English, but as I don't speak very well English so it felt like when foreigners try to say things in Spanish. English is a universal language and that there is talk around the world therefore have to know much English to not feel guiri when travelling to other city. The contrast between different cultures is what makes that your feel guiri, dress different, how to style your hair, the way to express yourself. An Andalusian in London to a Galician in Italy, is not the same because every area has its way of acting and his way of expressing himself that whenever you travel to a site you feel a little foreigner
ResponderEliminarThe first time I went to Cadiz I felt as a guiri , but my friends had already gone very years and she said me some tip this year and from this year I don´t felt more guiri. She said me that reserve the parking with the hotel because there wasn´t site. Also she said me that I don´t disguise with clothes very expensive that I use the disguise with imagination.
ResponderEliminarShe advice me that I eat in the bars with the feeding typical as shrimp omelette.
That I head the group the ``chirigotas ´´, choirs , quartets in the street that they are same that we heard in the TV and that I see the romancer ,she explained me that at first I don´t understand the letters but after I get to sing the refrain as the ``Gaditanos´´.
From these tips the second years I felt the Cadiz and after to celebrate the big carnival I go at small carnival that to start the third Sunday.
I have to say that I have never felt like a guiri when I go to England. I think this
ResponderEliminaris , because in my first summer there I was with a very friendly couple. They
usually teach their language to foreign people and they are used to meeting
with citizen from all over the world. I did not have any problem. They adapted to
me perfectly and they introduced me to their family. I shared with them many
moments, because I was living with them two weeks
Of couse ,I had to study every day and I had to get up early to attend to my one
to one tuition, but every afternoon they drove me to visit the surroundings of the
county. I went to the beach, small villages, and even the day before my return
we went to the forest to camp with other teenagers. Every weekend we spent all
the day out, we visited Manchester, where I saw the small pub where the
Beetles began and the docks, but , at least for me , the most beautiful town is
Chester, where you can find many students of different counties enjoy
themselves, this is a lively town, with a behavior very similar to us.
I strongly believe that you can be able to integrate in a new family and to have a
good time if you respect them
Several years ago I traveled with ten friends to Morocco , to the south, to Larache . We went with her mother, a friend of his mother , and a friend of Moroccan there . All of us we felt very touristy because we did not understand anything of what was happening on the street, why some things were doing , and some pretty strange things of their culture. We knew we typically learn in school when you study the ESO of different cultures , but spent one night .. buses and busloads of women in music , is something that we never found out why it did, but little little you finding and learning from things and situations of the places where you travel .
ResponderEliminarCome to the fair of Seville and being foreigner has to be something difficult to explain and easy to understand but I think that would leave us to Seville for a holiday and people always not working . I can not tell you much because I have never traveled outside of Spain more but not at me quickly , slowly as it can go knowing the world.
I am from Italy, but I came to Seville with 8 years. At that age, I usually go to the fair with my parents and brother but we didn´t appreciate things, we just went to the “ Infierno street”. Then, we started to learn more things about the April´s fair. Now, I prefer to go to different stands, where both sevillians and not sevillian people enjoy. They dance non-stop typical Sevillian dance, drink “rebujito”, eat, talk and laugh all the time with friends. Each year, April´s fair has a different cover. Some years are very nice, but others, it is a bit ugly.
ResponderEliminarIn conclusion, it is a nice custom of Seville and there are a lot of people that, before some months before the fair, they are working and thinking about the best week of the year in Seville.
Lorena Fusilier Goyeneche 1ºC
Whenever I go visit another country I feel well and you're out of your country and to a different culture where everything you see is new . L foreigner once more I felt was when I went to Pierrefonds boy with my parents as it was all new language and did not understand the truth that I was in a totally different osition . More and more I remember another occasion I went with my family to the Loire Valley , rented a house and stayed half a month at first if I felt like a foreigner but when I spend some time and get used to it and stop feeling a foreigner
ResponderEliminarThe most recent memory I have is when I went with my family to new york esque remember we did the same as a foreigner in Spain , we took many pictures , we went shopping , visited almost all giving great walks and went to eat at typical sites .
In conclusion I think that when you get to a new place which I do not know neither the language nor the lifestyle of people , you see a different culture and education you feel as separate from the inhabitants of that place is to say you feel different but when take some time and get used to you one more.
LUIS BECA 1-C
As normal, everybody has felt as a foreigner when he or she has gone to a place which is different from his home town. It can be in another country or in his own!
ResponderEliminarI felt like a foreigner when we went to Portugal six years ago. I stayed in a hotel in Sintra with all my family. One day we decided to visit a tiny medieval village which was located in the suburbs of the city. When we arrived we saw that they were celebrating their own feria. It was not like our “ Feria de Sevilla”, just the opposite. There were big tables where people were sat down and drinking big jars of beer. Women were dresses coloured in greens and red colours. Everybody was drinking, eating and dancing music I had never heard.
This fair was outside the village and tents were placed near a big lake inside a forest. There was not any fairground ride, quite the opposite! Children enjoyed dancing games like hitting a big sack which was hanging from a tree. Everybody was enjoying and they invited you to join the party. It did not care to be a foreigner.
Not, in no site I have felt as a guiri the truth because I have not also travelled very much to different countries and later because in the places that I have been they have understood me and have understood me very well. The truth that gives me many shame to feel as a guiri though my I am charmed with speaking with the guiris in Seville and to explain the traditions of Seville to him and since they are the Sevillian ones though the majority of things that we say to him do not understand it because they are words that in his language do not exist like such. I suppose that if it had gone often abroad one had felt at some time as a guiri because normally if you cannot speak perfectly this language that is what happens to me to you try to communicate for codes that normally all the persons we use the same ones to communicate.
ResponderEliminarThere are a lot of times that I have felt a foreigner, every time that I go on travel with my family. As it is a city where I don’t know anybody I usually do silly things in the street. I always feel a foreigner when my parents start to look a map in the middle of the street, or when we have to ask where some museums, famous monuments are.
ResponderEliminarI don’t like to look like a foreigner, because I always laugh of those who are in my city, apparently, I look like an American girl, because I’m blonde and my eyes are blue, so when I go there I look like one native more.
I find very funny the way some foreigners dress when they go to Seville, when we are in February, they wear shorts and t-shirts, OK, Seville is a hot city, but I think they exaggerate a lot!
In summer they wear slippers (flip flops) with socks! I only wear those types of shoes to go to the swimming pool or to the beach, and obviously without socks!
I have never felt foreigner in that way, but sometimes in my city people think that I’m from United States because of my appearance.
It is normal to feel like a foreigner when I travel to anywhere outside of Spain. When I was a little girl, I travelled to London with my family and oterhs friends. When I arrived there I felt stranged and I could know that I was out of my country because there was a lot of differents things. Mainly I can't understand anything and I saw their aspects different. For example they were wearing long socks with sandals when I was very cold with a sweater
ResponderEliminarFurthermore I can feel as a "guiri" all summer because on holidays I go to Porttimao, Portugal. I am fortunate to know Portugal mores and to learn other different languague. There I feel different. For example there are traditional parties where people dress with ancient and medieval clothes and they seem to be in past centuries. Also there are a total silence and you only can hear the traditional music. However I think that in Spain there isn't a celebration with total silence.
In my opinion all of them should visit foreign countries because we learn a lot of new and interesant things.
When I went to France with my group sailing on the European Championship where only were 15 Spaniards and everyone else out went to a meeting where we were 15 of us and the rest were 40, we were observed and were constantly making us all kinds of questions and we did not understand anything. No move by France and knew that everything was in French and almost nobody understood the French group so here we had to move through the streets of France through maps and with the help of dictionaries because when some French were wondering where to get some street did not understand it and we had just lost. Therefore we decided to use a dictionary or intenet to reach our destination. My group and I spent sailing in France 15 days in the last 7 days we made friends with many French and we communicated with hand signals.
ResponderEliminarEverybody has felt as a stranger for once in his life. Sometimes you have this feeling but it isn’t very strong. The first time I really felt like a “guiri” was when I went to England last year.
ResponderEliminarEven though I went with Spanish people, I could not have this feeling. Everything is the other way around from here.
When you want to cross a road, you have to look in the other direction you would do here because they drive on the left. Their wheel is on the right in the car. Sometimes, when I wanted to get into a car, I got confused and I tried to get into it in the wrong place.
Another thing that I didn’t get was that every shop in the village was closed at 7 pm. Maybe there it is common because they do everything earlier but for us it was a bit annoying. When we had time to go shopping, we couldn’t. Sometimes I had finished dinner and two hours later I was going to bed but I was hungry again.
Another thing is that the food is really different from ours and during the three weeks I ate a lot of days in McDonalds because I didn’t like the food they put me for lunch.
There are a lot of things that difference us from them but we come from others countries and it is logical to not feel like at home.
Well, i can define a guiri that is a foreigner who is not from where you are and knows nothing about the country
ResponderEliminarMany times I have felt like a guiri especially when traveling on vacation with my parents or with my friends, because you do not know anything about this place or culture.
There are places where people are very mean, and when ask them about where somewhere is, they reply you with a bad face and bad manners.
Speaking of tourism and the amount of guiri that exist in our country, Americans and Japanese traveling more to Barcelona and Madrid, but the French, Germans and British tend to go more to the coastal areas, such as South, because of the sun, the beach and because they are young.
21.- Yes, of course! I remember when I travelled to Cuenca, I was very young but I remember it clearly.
ResponderEliminarWe travelled there because my father went to hunt with some of their friends.
At first we took a train to Valladolid and then we drove till Cuenca, I think it was like six hours more or less…
We stayed at Paradores Hotel, it was amazing. The hotel was incredibly big and beautiful, it was next to the hanging houses typical of there. We stayed there for a weekend and we tourism the old part of the city.
My mother got lost once so we had to ask people where we were. With the help of people of the city we achieve to come back to the right way. We stayed like five hours walking throught the streets in circles, but fortunately people of Cuenca help us to get the right way.
everyone has felt foreigner ever in your life, for example I whenever you travel to another country when I go down the street I feel uncomfortable, I think everybody looks at me, but that also happens when foreigners come to Seville, is noted for its way of dressing and their skin color and other things. sure you have the feeling that everyone regards them and comment on them. From my point of view, felling a guiri is not important because the most important is travelling and knowing countries, their customs and new people.
ResponderEliminaractually when you go to a different to yours always feel a bit like a foreign country, since neither the language nor the customs are the same, or at least not all.
ResponderEliminarthe problem of the temperature is more often betray you, as for example when I went to Ireland in the summer, there were all wearing T-shirts and shorts, and I was in coat and pants.it of carrying the camera in hand, to make pictures with the source in which you have drunk that you were already exhausted from walking is also something to say until sources here are nice.
I, personally, that doing weird poses with characteristic monuments of the place, such as holding the famous leaning tower, is something that I gives me great shame for me, when I see the tourists in Seville doing that I laugh a lot, so when they see me they will do the same, or perhaps they may be already used to, but then the pictures are really cool hahaha
but even in our own city too are often foreigners, because we do not really know anything about it, its history, so all touristy somo everywhere in the world right?
although we did not go with sandals and white socks... :)
Alberto Romero Real 1 º D
ResponderEliminarOf course, every time I go somewhere where I've never been I´m feel a foreigner. And this is because they do not know anything about the place where I'm going and not knowing anyone I feel like a "foreigner". But it also depends on where you go, for example, if I go to a site in Spain I feel at home but do not know the place but the people there speak my language and I feel comfortable; but if I go to another country I do feel there is a 'foreigner', since, did not speak my language nor yours and I feel so uncomfortable. But the discomfort is relative because if I go to another country with my family and I'm more comfortable. Ultimately, I think everyone feels "foreigner" when going to another city that is not yours, but depends on the type of people because if you are a traveling person get used to the new place quickly.
I've never really felt giri anywhere because although as usual when you go abroad you feel so often I've gone to collective as a cruiser or family trips and always had more Spaniards then is you did not so rare.
ResponderEliminarAlthough one of the times that I've felt a little giri was when I went with my mother to London, since went solo two and my mother speaks only in English so I learned, not told me anything in Spanish. That stooped me because I was ten years old and I didn't understand anything and I felt like being held incommunicado, the truth that my mother only spoke me in English so that he could learn language not helped me much because he practically didn't speak because I did not know anything. Now with 17 years I think and if I pass again if he would speak English because it is now when appreciate the importance of English for every day at school, a work, in the street, on a trip... but 10 years nobody has that way of thinking.
I'd like to feel giri but not to be Spanish and living abroad but by speaking English as a giri.
I do not travel much outside of Spain. When I traveled to Paris, I felt strange as they have another language, another culture, etc.. When she walked down the street and hear people talk always thought I would like to know who spoke, be a bit nosy like here in Spain, that whole everything you talk about those who are yours, when you take a walk. We talked very strong in Spain, I realized that there. Our streets are dirtier. We express ourselves with more and more euphoria gestures, ie gestures mean we do not need words. In Paris it was all very quiet, even people who played in the street they did it with little volume, a good thing if your house is close to the playing in the street, so you do not mind. In Seville I have never felt a foreigner, simply because I am from here and that is the basis of a foreigner, unless the site is located. At the fair of Seville, you can get to feel like a foreigner because the booths are private, but to me that I like, because you have your own house at the fair. If you made face with education, in almost every walk smoothly. I assure you I will spend well in the fair of Seville.
ResponderEliminarNo, I have never felt a “guiri” because I spend my holidays in Valencia with my family. I know everybody and my friends in Valencia know me when I was a boy. I always have a very good time there.
ResponderEliminarWhen I travel with my parents to other country, they have everything prepared and we don’t have to ask. Sometimes, if we are taking fotos, I don’t like thinking the others think I am a guiri. I like taking fotos, but only with my friends. When I am with my parents and my family I think that it is not nice. When we go to the restaurants I don’t understand them, but my father always has the meal for us and we don’t mind.
When I see guiris I think they are very white and they are red when the sun is. They all have the same clothes, same t-shirts, and I don’t like the sandals. I hate sandals. I never wear sandals when I go to other country.
I have been abroad twice the last years, one in Roma and another in Paris. Both times I went with my family, my father, my mother, my sister and me. I had not many chances of feeling
ResponderEliminarlike a guiri because most of the times we needed to communicate with someone it was my father the one who spoke in order to ask for indications and all this kind of things. Anyway,
we were doing all the typical things that foreign people do when they visit a new city, we took the city sightseeing bus, we went to the typical places as Notre dame in Paris or
The Vatican in Roma where we needed to do huge lines that made us wait a lot. I remember before we took the bus which took us to the Vatican my father asked me to go to the reception
in order to ask for the bus leaving time, so I had to speak with the receptionist for a while. It was kind of easy task because Italian and Spanish language are quite similar so It
did not cost me a lot. All of the stuff described above made me feel in any way as a guiri, because I see how people who come to sevilla normally do the same things we were doing,
carrying with their cameras in the top of the touristic bus same way we were doing in those cities. So, in conlusion this made me feel as a guiri.
Whenever you visit a new city with different manners to yours with different language you feel a stranger, or at least I feel so. The time I have felt more foreign was this summer when I visit Istanbul because I felt very different to people there. And all I see foreigners doing in Sevilla I was doing there, this made me feel even more foreign. There, women go with the whole body and head covered by scarves and black tunics, and as I went in August and I was very hot there, I was wearing short and T-shirts, so I felt even more different. The food was very different from ours and customs too. I do not know their language, I didn´t understand what they were talking. Several times a day a prayer were heard at high volume on the street, because they were called to pry to the mezquitas, and I didn´t understand anything but the other people followed these sentences and began t o walk in the same direction, at that time I felt very strange.
ResponderEliminaractually I don't find as a foreigner even when I travel, because I am a person who adapts quickly beyond where you are and I like to meet new customs, but still remember the last time I went to Portugal with my family that I got a few friends there and they began to speak in Portuguese, the language is similar, but there are things that I do not understand them and usually failed to understand everything they saidonly answered whether or not, then began to play a game that I
ResponderEliminarI had never seen and nor I understood the rules... but it was all the time laughing of as trying to explain the game to me.
many times does not need be outside your country to feel foreign, simply cannot be in your environment or go out with people that you don't know enough to feel "guiri"
SUSANA CARO FERRAND
A guiri is a foreigner that is not where this.I don't feel like a foreigner especially when traveling on vacation with my parents or my friends, because informed me about this place or culture or what they do every day.
ResponderEliminarThere are places where people are very bad and when ask about where is somewhere, you respond with a rude face and bad manners because they despise the foreigner. For example in France are as well, I think that it is bad because tourism is very important especially for the economy, and more if it is Spain that saves us from the crisis.
Speaking of tourism and the number of foreigner that exist in our country, Americans and Japanese travel to Barcelona and Madrid, but the French, Germans and British tend to go more to coastal areas, including the South, because of the Sun, the beach and why they are young. Alejandro Kirkendall
This year I have not been to the fair, I do not like, but other years if, were dining with friends, we go for a while Elm Street, is what I like, then return to the “caseta”, eat omelet, ham, .... and rested a bit from walking and roam around the fair. I also like going home because we eat chocolate with churros.
ResponderEliminarThe word guiri includes people as well as many types of people. All we've ever felt like a guiri, so we should not be ashamed of us, or laugh at them because they could do so well with us and they do not, so we have to be respectful to the tourists.
ResponderEliminarThe first time I went to Austria I knew nothing of German and could not speak to the people there, to talk to the Austrians needed them to know speak English to try to understand them I found uy complicated because neither wise speak English properly. I needed my uncle Jubal help me talk to people and that can speak German. Feel like a guiri is very annoying and especially at a party in a city where you do not know anyone and you can not relate because you do not know your language, if you go with a friend traveling with you is not so tough, but if you go with a friend not going to try to meet new people.
In short when I felt like a guiri was an unpleasant experience but which I am not ashamed, unlike when I was a guiri I laughed thinking about what my thought Austrians at me. JOSE LUIS GIRON
The only trip to a foreign country that I made was to Diney Paris, I was young and my parents were those who had to get to terms with the French, but I realized that if the French were not doing to understand you I was frustrated and even I was angry, for example in the hotel to ask for water or soda in the explanations of the shows in which most of the time were not in Spanish, I got angry and complained to my parents that I could not figure out anything.
ResponderEliminarIf people who welcome tourists do please and work with them the tourist feels weird, do not know the customs, foods and knows little known language so stay can be uncomfortable and that happened to me me sometimes in Paris.