Reflection 2-10

This week I did something that I've never done before! I was actually able to talk to my grandpa over the phone in Tagalog! It was - as always - a little bit broken but we were able to fully understand what the other was talking about. My grandpa's dialect is not Tagalog, he actually speaks another dialect called Hiligaynon, but since Tagalog is the Filipino national language and is spoken on television and radio, he was able to understand and speak back. This was great because it really helped me connect with my grandpa in ways that I was never able to before. His english is not very good, and he never was able to understand what I was saying. But because of my newfound skills in speaking Tagalog we bridged a gap that seemed totally uncrossable!