Owing to a certain interest I had in Fontainhas at the time, I spent my entire
college years in Fontainhas instead of the nearby college where I should have
been :-) So I can with some authority recreate the conversations of Goa's Latin
Quarter.
Maria Augustina Coutina de Noronho Costa (Aggy hereafter): Bom Dia bebe, esplet
well?
Anna-Maria de Maria Augustina Coutina (Annie hereafter): Yes Mama. Mousqitoes
everywhere.
Aggy: Come eat almus, esterday's estew. I made espcially for you. Bread is
there no?
Annie: Mama, who coming today?
Aggy: Carmo cousin is coming with Armando Furtado de Sousa-Costa's shun. Little
dark he is but otherwise good boy. Very descent famile.
Annie: What I should wear Mama?
Aggy: Wear that yellow dress you wore for Carmo's wedding. You were dancing too
close to Nelson that day hanv? We don't know that boy. Where his family coming
from?
Annie: No mama, he's just a college friend. Yellow dress with bows?
Aggy: Practice your piano. You have to play, O Sole Mio. They only speak
Portugese, you know.
Annie: But Mamma, I don't speak Portugese.
Aggy: That's ok bebe. Girls should be seen and not heard.Show them your crochet
doilies.
Chus :-))
Selma
