Family And The Language Institute - 875 Words

Family Betty and I are from the same town, same city. We met at the language institute, she was 16 and I was 18, but we didn’t know each other before that. Even though our families were living about a mile apart; we didn’t know each other. Our families knew each other, but not us. Betty went to a girls’ school, I went to a boys’ school, so we didn’t meet until we went to the institute. We were good friends for a year, we had different friends in the school. Then things kind of got in such a way that we started going out and became serious. That year we played matchmakers for other friends! Betty had a friend that was crazy about me and I had a friend that was interested in one of her cousins. So we did the matchmaking. We dated for seven years before we were able to get married. We couldn’t get married over in Argentina because she was going to school and I was going to school, so we were not going to live with our parents. That was not an option. O n December 30th it will be 44 years since we got married, almost 51 since we met. We met in 1964, in 1955 we started dating and got married in 1971. It was the English that got us together. It was in our destiny that we were going to be here in the States speaking the language. Add section on married life Add section on fatherhood/parenthood In those first few years, our parents started traveling to the US, so we were still in touch with family. We used to go to Mendoza a lot when our kids were younger, so our families couldShow MoreRelatedCutting Edge Korean Slides From Middle Korean1557 Words   |  7 PagesA connectch ion of Korean (together with its wiped out relatives which shape the Koreanic family) with Japonic dialects has been proposed by etymologists like William George Aston and Samuel Martin. 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