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Question by Anna: Does Anyone know the song…..?
Does Anyone know that other language song that goes like “Hey Macarena [something], macarena….” It also says, “hey hey hey hey hey hey”…It is sang by a man, and its like a salsa/samba/energetic song that you can somewhat belly dance too, and its NOT the macarena dance/song by Los Del Rio NOR La Lambada…

Thanks

Best answer:

Answer by missmarvelous
spanish

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Question by gabiclick88: Can you help a french girl for her self-portrait in english?
Bonjour,
I’m Gabi from the south France (Marseilles).
I have to describe myself in english. I tried to do my best, but I know there are few (or a lot? I hope no) mistakes.
I don’t know people around me who speak a fluent english, but I’m sure it will be easy for you.
Can you help me to have a good introduction? Here my text :

CURRENT MISSION
To forget time
OCCUPATION
Dreamer

ALL ABOUT YOU
The human nature is elusive. Do I have to describe my desires or my reason, because few of my desires are reasonable… Do I have to try to draw my real nature or the woman I am with her history and surroundings ?
I grew up and stayed to this day in the same region : la Provence. Even if I would have liked to move and to do big travels during my childhood, my imagination is all the bigger. I aspire to an endless freedom, complete independence.
When I was a child, I wanted to become an astronaut, then apple merchant, painter, politician, writer. In 2009, I’m studying medicine in Marseilles. I divide my time among the hospital, courses, student job ; books, movies, music ; flamenco, windsurf and climbing ; parties with friends, my family and trips.
In June I’m going to south America for 3 months. Until then I would like to go in Morocco and Quebec, and after then to visit my sister in Shanghai.

HOW I PARTICIPATE
To begin communicate my optimism and big smile, the continuation build in a group !

EXPERIENCE
I have hosted, been hosted and met some of you!
Writing mails, sharing good ideas, meeting someone somewhere in this world, drinking and speaking together, having new friends, helping travelers who want to see the south France.. I’m inpatient for all of that!

INTERESTS
To feel music vibes when I’m lying down
To wake me up with sun ray warming up my skin
The Nature : see, swimming, windsurf, mountain, skiing, climbing (one day, Everest?)
The dynamism of big cities, keep the belief of be able to change the world into one’s view
To watch a good movie when I’m tired, this brings me new dreams and new thoughts
Some moments of deep melancholic loneliness
Talk just for the sake of talking (I’m a chatterbox? no..), use comic situations
Trust people, feel considered and loved

PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY
I love the life. We must protected it and express it by all means : art, thought, social interaction.
A happy life doesn’t worry about time going
To live on love and fresh air, but my conscience forced me to be actor on this earth : to be constantly in a total opposition. Its balance is the happiness, its resolution the death.

PEOPLE I ENJOY
People ready to share and to let oneself discover,
Who aren’t scared of the difference, the unknown, their deep imaginary and the creativity,
Someone who considered me as a whole person without judge my direct action.
People who will help me to build my mind full of questions or to the contrary who will make me them forgotten

TEACH, LEARN, SHARE
A bit of dance (ballet, flamenco, tango, salsa)
To sing in a round French songs
Some advices for having a lift with hitch-hiking for long distances
Cooking really easy : crepes and carbonara pasta

AMAZING THING DONE / SEEN
Take part in an open heart surgery (successful!) during 8 hours.

YOUR OPINION PLEASE !
Wonderful : at the time of couchsurfing like hitch-hiking, I have a request, but my weakness becomes a strength when we trust each other without expecting anything in return except for a bit of humanity!

COUCH
A blue sofa that can be converted into a bed in the living room.
I am living in front of the medical school with a friend (girl) who is studying medicine like me.
My home is 20 minutes by foot from the center town, but 5 minutes from the underground.
No pets.
We don’t smoke, but you can smoke on the balcony.
There are supermarkets and shops in the quarter.
Few days are ok. Fast every time.

Thank you very much to spend time with me!!
Gabi

Best answer:

Answer by Scott E
si tu l’écris en français, puis peut-être je te peux aider avec une traduction..

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Question by \m/^o^\m/: R u a Latino? Check this out to see…?
1) If you have ever been hit by a “Chancleta”
2) If you grew up scared by something called El Cucuy or La Llorona.
3) If others tell you to stop screaming when you are really just talking.
4) If you light a candle to the Virgin Mary on the night before your big test.
5) If you use your chin to point something out.
6) If you constantly refer to cereal as “con fleys.”
7) If your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you for dinner, even if it’s a one bedroom apartment. If you can dance merengue, cumbia or salsa without music.
9) If you use “manteca” instead of olive oil and can’t figure out why your nalgas are getting bigger.
10) If you are in a five passenger car with seven people in it and a person is shouting “subanse, todavia caben mas!”
11) If whenever you feel under the weather, you compulsively dab on some “Vic’s vapor rub” all over your pecho and inside your nostrils.
12) Your mom packs your “lonche” every day even though you’ve just turned thirty-two.
13) If you call the North Americans “gringos,” including Canadians, and call all Asian people “chinos” or “chinitos” and you call the corner store “the chinito’s store. Now excuse me while I go eat some chicharones……..

Best answer:

Answer by karabisely@ymail.com
1. no?
2. YES!!!!! my dad told us the cucuy would get us!
3. not really, sometimes if i mean to scream
4. no…not Catholic
5. maybe once or twice if im trying to be sneaky
6. no
7. yep
8. never tried
9. huh?
10. nope
11. not me
12. nope
13. no, use gringo to confuse ppl sometimes.

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Question by Whiteboykilla: Latin Racial Jokes 2: The Le Migre’?
You Know your a Mexican When….

You have ever been hit by a chancla.

You grew up scared by something called “El Cucuy.”

Others tell you to stop screaming when you are really just talking.

You light a candle on the night of the Lotto drawing.

You use your lips to point something out.

You constantly refer to cereal as “con fleis”.

Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you to dinner even if it’s a one bedroom apartment.

You can dance ranchera, cumbia or salsa without music.

You use “manteca” (lard) instead of olive oil and can’t figure out why your butt is getting bigger.

You call your sneakers “tenees”.

You have at least thirty cousins.

You can’t imagine anyone not liking spicy food.

You are in a 5-passenger car with 7 people in it and a person shouting “subanse, todavia caben”.

Whenever you feel under the weather, you compulsively dab on some “Vics” vapor rub all over your chest and inside your nostrils.

Your mom packs your “lonchera” everyday.

You or someone you know uses “Tres Flores” in their hair.

Tamales, champurrado, posole and menudo are must haves on Thanksgiving.

There is more Budweiser than punch at little Juanito’s birthday party.

There is at least one member in your family name Maria, Guadalupe, Juan, Jose, or Jesus.

Everyone still thinks Cesar Chavez is the best boxer even if he lost against Oscar De La Hoya.

You’ve gone to the Pulgamarket every weekend for years.

You step into a house that has all those little figurines taking up every inch of space on/under the TV.

You have a porcelain cat, dog, Buddha, or elephant in your living room.

You have plastic slipcovers on your sofas.

You swear “Choco Mil” is the same as Slim Fast and try to lose weight by drinking it.

You have a drunk uncle/aunt.

You’re still afraid to open that umbrella in your house.

You not only know who Don Francisco from Sabado Gigante is, but you tell people he’s your tio.

Your mother, tia or hermana’s hair is blackcherry, “Sun in” red or a burgundy that would make Celia Cruz jealous.

You always try to find out what town another fellow Latino’s family is from.

You have ever had to “beepiar” a friend on their pager.

You wear your Sunday best to do laundry at the laundrymat and go grocery shopping.

You have told your kid not to walk the floor barefoot or they’ll catch a cold.

You go to a wedding or Quiencienera, gossip about how bad the comida is, but be the first to take a plato to go.

You have a bottle of Tapatio in your purse.

Your cousins are delinquents / hootchies.

You have a chola in your barrio named “La Flaca” who’s bigger than a house.

You think Cristina trumps Oprah any day.

You have a cousin named “Guero” who’s darker than night.

You know a chola named “La Shy Girl” who is loud and obnoxious.

You need to point out how much something you just bought cost.

You go to a white friends house for dinner and don’t understand the concept of sitting at a table.

You’ve tried to bring a mango back to the US from Mexico, and a bonus point if you actually made it all the way home with it.

You have a bottle of Bacardi or Tequila in your house right now.

You drive a “Cheby”, an “Ohsmobeel” or a “Bolswahgon”

You’re proud to be Mexican – and you pass these jokes on to all your Mexican friends!
shoot lugz all you want

I wear a vest
LOOK AT THE BIG BRAIN ON M”LADY

WOW!

who cares, i dont have any apples for ya teach

Best answer:

Answer by tane
i feel like farting..

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Question by Me: Why Latinos can’t be terrorists!?
1. 8:45am is too early for us to be up.

2. We are always late; we would have missed all 4 flights.

3. Pretty people on the plane distract us.

4. We would talk loudly and bring attention to ourselves.

5. with food and drinks on the plane, we would forget why we’re there.

6. We talk with our hands, therefore we would have to put our weapons down.

7. We would ALL want to fly the plane.

8. We would argue and start a fight in the plane.

9. We can’t keep a secret, we would have told everyone a week before doing it.

AND MY FAVORITE…

10. We would have put our country’s flag on the windshield.

ARE YOU A LATINO? HOW CAN YOU TELL FOR SURE?

1) If you have ever been hit by a “Chancleta”

2) If you grew up scared by something called “El Cuco” or “La Llorona”.

3) If others tell you to stop screaming when you are really just talking.

4) If you light a candle to the Virgin Mary on the night before your big test.

5) If you use your chin to point something out.

6) If you constantly refer to cereal as “con fleys.”

7) If your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you for dinner, even if it’s a one bedroom apartment.

If you can dance merengue, cumbia or salsa without music.

9) If you use “manteca” instead of olive oil and can’t figure out why your nalgas are getting bigger.

10) If you are in a five passenger car with seven people in it and a person is shouting “subanse, todavia caben mas!”

11) If whenever you feel under the weather, you compulsively dab on some “Vic’s vapor rub” all over your pecho and inside your nostrils.

12) Your mom packs your “lonche” every day even though you’ve just turned thirty-two.

13) If you call the North Americans “gringos,” including Canadians, and call all Asian people “chinos” or “chinitos” and you call the corner store “the chinito’s store.”
Send this to all your Latino friends!!!! You can also send this to your non-Latino friends, but if you have to explain more than three items (words),

what’s the point???????

Excuse me while I go eat some chicharrones…….. >>>

Best answer:

Answer by Bella
It’s so funny cause it’s true

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Question by blissful: survey, which do you prefer?
which do you prefer?

1. lays or ruffles?
2. ice cream or frozen yogurt?
3. salsa or guacamole?
4. dance or sing?
5. short sleeves or long sleeves?
6. school or work?
7. cloudy or sunny?
8. potato salad or pasta salad?
9. call or text?
10. spiderman or batman?
11. tigers or lions?
12. LA or NY?
13. eat or drink?
14. sandwiches or subs?
15. white bread or wheat bread?
16. plants or flowers?
17. vegetables or fruits?
18. smoothies or shakes?
19. sandles or flipflops
20. mute of deaf?
MY ANSWERS
1. lays or ruffles? LAYS
2. ice cream or frozen yogurt? FROZEN YOGURT
3. salsa or guacamole? SALSA
4. dance or sing? SING
5. short sleeves or long sleeves? SHORT SLEEVES
6. school or work? WORK
7. cloudy or sunny? SUNNY
8. potato salad or pasta salad? PASTA SALAD
9. call or text? CALL
10. spiderman or batman? SPIDERMAN
11. tigers or lions? TIGERS
12. LA or NY? LA
13. eat or drink? EAT
14. sandwiches or subs? SIUBS
15. white bread or wheat bread? WHITE BREAD
16. plants or flowers? FLOWERS
17. vegetables or fruits? FRUITS
18. smoothies or shakes? SMOOTHIES
19. sandles or flipflops? FLIPFLOPS
20. mute of deaf? MUTE

Best answer:

Answer by Dancing Ashli
lays
ice cream
salsa
dance
short sleeves
work
sunny
pasta salad
call
batman
tigers
LA
eat
neither… but subs
wheat
plants
fruits
shakes
sandles (wedges)
deaf

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Question by OhYeah!: Any Birthday (25th) Ideas in LA County?????
My 25th bday is coming up and I have no idea what to do or where to celebrate. It’s this Tuesday coming up! I’d like to have dinner w/ all my friends at a nice sophisticated fun place rather than the whole club thing. I’d like to find a place something like SushiSamba (to those who have been to one) – I wish we had one here in LA! I’m a latina salsa dancer, in the LA county – so I definitely enjoy a tropical latin flavor atmosphere! I Love Music – all types! I’m open to all types of food as well… perhaps a nice restaurant w/ a dance performance, or musicians… ANY SUGGESTIONS???? I would really appreciate it! Thx in advanced

Best answer:

Answer by RickNY
I think the place is called el Floridita on Vine and Fountain in Hollywood. Cuban food w/salsa dancing.

The Sky Room’s another option, although it’s for an older crowd. Food’s pricey, but they got live band playing latin, jazz, and some ballads.

The LA dance scene’s just not as good anymore, especially when they closed the Conga Room. New York City’s the place for dancing, but let me stop from deviating from the topic : )

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Question by Chris Doriott: Restaurant around 0 to 0 range in Los Angeles/Santa Monica?
Hi,

I’m looking to take my girlfriend to a restaurant in the LA area that has formal dress and if possible, dancing (swing, ballroom, salsa, etc)… I’d like to keep the price below $ 200 for the two of us if possible.

Please let me know if you know of a good place or heard of somewhere!
Thank you!!
We are both 20 years old so places that are 21 & over are unacceptable.

Best answer:

Answer by Christine
I suggest the Sky Room in Long Beach (I know you want Santa Monica, but it has no age restriction, is in your budget, has ballroom dancing with a live pianist, and amazing views).

http://www.theskyroom.com/new/theskyroom/

Check out the site. It might be just the thing you’re looking for…

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Question by Anna: Can Someone Pleaseeeee Help? What is this song called and who sings it??
Does Anyone know that brazilian song that goes like “Hey Macarena [something], macarena….” It also says, “hey hey hey hey hey hey”…It is sang by a man, and its like a salsa/samba/energetic song that you can somewhat belly dance too.

IT IS NOT the macarena dance/song by Los Del Rio
NOR
La Lambada…

Thanks

Best answer:

Answer by marlaiah r
IM NOT A MEXICAN FAN SORRY

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Question by Anna: What is this song called and who sings it?
Does Anyone know that other language song that goes like “Hey Macarena [something], macarena….” It also says, “hey hey hey hey hey hey”…It is sang by a man, and its like a salsa/samba/energetic song that you can somewhat belly dance too.

IT IS NOT the macarena dance/song by Los Del Rio
NOR
La Lambada…

Thanks

Best answer:

Answer by phyllis n
sorry, can’t remember-aghhhh

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