Is that French?

  Is it weird I stalk people on the train who talks another language besides English or Spanish? For me is actually very normal. I love listening to people speaking a language I barely understand. It was a saturday morning and as always, I was out of the house very early. I waited several minutes for the train until it finally arrived. I did not complained about the time I had to wait for the train because it is usual for the train to last longer in the weekends. I mean.. the people who work for the MTA have a life too, don't they? Just put yourself in that position of having to work on weekends.
  Anyways, the train arrived in the station and I got inside the train. The wagon was practically empty, there were only a few people in it. I was the only one standing as always. I love to practice balance for my pirouettes while the train is in motion. It took me like four minutes to hear that the couple that was sitting right in front of me were speaking in French. But they didn't even looked like they were from France. According to the New York Times, "French is now spoken mostly by people who aren’t French. More than 50 percent of them are African." They did not look French.  I was actually very impress and just wanted to jump in the conversation with a "bonjour". I had my headphones on with no music because I didn't want them to think I was listening to their conversation. They didn't even looked at me once. I sat down right next to them when the train stopped as if I was tired. I would be freaked out if someone sat right next to me while the train car was completely empty. But they didn't even payed attention to me!
  I started to listen to their conversation and to look at their lips because hearing it wasn't enough. I felt transparent. They didn't care that I was less than a feet to them. I thought that the conversation was extremely interesting or that they didn't mind me being there because I wasn't going to understand a word they were saying. They didn't even paused to take a breathe.
  I did not want to leave their side but my stop had come, and sadly, I had to get out of the train. After I stopped listening to them, I realized I did not understand a word they said. Not because I don't understand French, but because it wasn't French after all. I was too focused on them not speaking English or Spanish, that I missed the language in which they were really speaking!


                                                                     WORK CITED
Kimmelman, Michael "Pardon My French" The New York Times. April 21, 2010. NYtimes. Web. Feb 20, 2014.