Alright, typical American abroad student moment: I came home one day and I wanted to use my brother’s internet connection so I asked if he was in the house. The conversation went something like this:
Me: Hey, how’s it going.
Host mom: Good. How was class?
Me: Interesting but I’m really tired. Is Hugo home?
Host mom: Yeah.
Me: Is he erect?
Host mom: What?
Me: Is he erect? Has he gotten out of bed yet?
Host mom (laughing uncontrollably): Oh, you mean is he up?
Apparently there’s some slang here that’s extremely close to the word to be awake/up and I fumbled the pronunciation. My host mom proceeded to call my host brother into the room, tell him the story and then they talked a lot about if he was erect/my Spanish/erections. Never going to live this down.
