SLOW Spanish Storytime | "My Friend Became a Street Beggar"

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Can you think of any crazy anecdote from your past? Would you like to tell it to your Spanish friends? In this lesson, Reni tells an anecdote about a time when her friend drank too much and ended up selling jewelry in the street. Before she found her, though, she spent quite a while trying to find her and many different methods to do it. To explain a sequence of events in the past in detail, we can use a variety of past tenses, including the imperfect tense, the past simple tense, the Imperfect Continuous, and the Pluperfect. Can you identify when to use each one of them? Don't forget to show this video to your friends so you can practice together by discussing it. Stay learning!

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Hi, I'm Reni.

Welcome to Slow Spanish Storytime,

where I'm going to tell you a story in Spanish, but slowly so that everything is perfectly understood, okay?

Today I am going to tell you about the story in which in a "peda", that is, while being drunk,

I found a friend of mine begging for money with the Indians in Mexico.

Ready? Let's start.

So, this story happened about five years ago.

In Cancun, a friend and I had decided that we were going to go to the beach to enjoy the day,

to drink, eat some sandwiches and we both got really, really drunk.

But, since we lived in Cancun, we went to a public beach and my friend wanted to go in...

She was stupidly determined in her drunkenness to enter the beach at the Riu Palace hotel. The nicest hotel.

So she told me: "On the count of three we are going to run and we are going to get into the beach."

So I said: "You're crazy!"

And when she counted we ran, but through the entrance of the hotel.

And obviously a guard stopped us and I got out.

But I no longer knew what happened to her because she ignored the guard.

She kept running. She kept running!

So when I left I didn't know what had happened to her, they took her out through a different door.

So I was desperate because I couldn't find her. I was looking for her outside the hotel.

I tried to find a path to get to that beach from the side, to see if she had arrived, but she hadn't.

So, being desperate, I tried to talk to some friends to help me but no one, no one lived there.

We were alone.

So, in my desperation, looking everywhere, searching the street, I went back to the flat

and I saw one of those Indian women who in Mexico sit on the sidewalk with bracelets, necklaces...

They sell things and that they also have a little jar to ask for money.

And my friend was sitting there with her, with her little hand like that, begging for money.

And when I met her I asked her, "What are you doing?"

But she was totally wasted and she said: "I'm here with her, I'm helping her."

In her mind, she was helping her beg for money and sell bracelets.

So, that is the story of when, while being drunk, I found my friend asking for money with an Indian woman.

Hola, soy Reni.

Bienvenidos a Slow Spanish Storytime,

donde yo les voy a contar una historia en español, pero lento para que se entienda todo perfecto, ¿okay?

Hoy les voy a contar de la historia en la que en una peda, o sea, en una borrachera,

me encontré a una amiga mía pidiendo dinero con las indias en México.

¿Listo? Vamos a empezar.

Entonces, esta historia ocurrió hace como cinco años.

En Cancún una amiga y yo habíamos decidido que íbamos a ir a la playa a disfrutar el día,

a tomar, comer unos bocadillos y nos pusimos muy pedas las dos, muy pedas.

Pero, como vivíamos en Cancún, fuímos a una playa pública y mi amiga quería entrar...

Estaba necia, necia en su borrachera en entrar a la playa del hotel Riu Palace. El hotel más nice.

Entonces me dijo: "A la cuenta de tres vamos a correr y nos vamos a meter a la playa".

Entonces yo le dije: "¡Estás loca!"

Y cuando contó nos metimos corriendo, pero por la entrada del hotel.

Y obviamente un guardia nos paró y yo me salí.

Pero ya no i knew qué pasó con ella porque ella no le hizo caso al guardia.

Ella siguió corriendo. ¡Siguió corriendo!

Entonces cuando me salí no i knew qué pasó con ella y la sacaron por otra puerta alterna.

Entonces yo estaba desesperada porque no la encontraba. La estaba buscando afuera del hotel.

traté de buscar un camino para llegar a esa playa por un lado, a ver si había llegado, pero no.

Entonces, al estar desesperada, traté de hablarle a algunos amigos que me ayudaran pero nadie, nadie vivía allí.

Estábamos solas.

Entonces, en mi desesperación, viendo para todos lados, buscando en la calle, volví al piso

y vi una india de esas que en México se sientan en la banqueta con pulseras, collares...

Que venden cosas y que aparte tienen un jarrito para pedir dinero.

Y mi amiga estaba ahí sentada con ella, con su manita así, pidiendo dinero.

Y cuando me la encontré le dije: "¿Qué estás haciendo?"

Pero estaba totalmente peda y me dijo: "Estoy aquí con ella, le estoy ayudando."

En su mente, le estaba ayudando a pedir dinero y a vender pulseras.

Entonces, esa es la historia de cuando en una peda me encontré a mi amiga pidiendo dinero con una india.