Medialunas, conversaciones del castellano y gays

So this is my week off from internship, I was originally planning on traveling but instead, I decided to stay in Buenos Aires - reading lots for my research, painting canvases, visiting places, doing interviews with various people, and shopping. I like it this way even though I am missing out on other parts of Argentina (like Iguazu Falls) but I don't know, I feel like I have not gotten to know Buenos Aires fully yet so this week has been perfect.

So this morning, I went to a cafe called Confeteria La Ideal for a breakfast conversation meeting with two Spanish teachers and their students. I never met the teacher before but I did email him about a class before and he was very nice to invite to this conversation gathering for free practice. I thought it would be great way to practice my Spanish for an hour and half, meet some new and interesting people, and see if I want to have those teachers give me lessons for the last two weeks I am here. Well...it was interesting...

First upon my arrival, the cafe was EMPTY..and I mean EMPTY with the exception of the group of conversationers...like literally there was no one there except for us and a waiter. It's breakfast time..Argentines love cafes...and no one was there! And it's a famous cafe too...highly recommended to watch tango shows and take tango lessons with a good cafe on the first floor. I thought it would be packed with tourists! But nope..Well bueno, that's okay.

Then I met my group... and it was a group of mid-aged American men with a young Argentine lad (the teacher) and another mid-aged Argentine man (the other teacher). So I felt awkward being the only one under 28 and female.

But that's bueno too, we were just all chatting about various things like what do you do, oh you are a teacher, what do you do, oh you are a student, that type of thing UNTIL the American man sitting across from me asked the MOST awkward question ever! It went like this (all in Spanish, of course):

American Man - "So can I asked if how many gay men are here"
Young Argentine teacher (turned red, confused out of his mind) - "you mean in Argentina?"
American Man - "No, here! this table."

AWKWARD SILENCE.................. I was confused...........

Young Argentine teacher (still red) pointed to me and said, "well, I don't know about Quing, but from this side of the table to that end, all gay."

And since I was sitting at the edge of the table, that meant all of one.

The other American man on the other end of table protested: "umm..I am not"
Young Argentine teacher - "Oh sorry, my bad, so only 5 out 6 men here at gay plus Quing"

So I was speaking Spanish and eating medialunas with a group of gay men in Buenos Aires at 10am on a nice, sunny Thursday morning. Of course, I have never met any of them before!

And after that awkward conversation, we discussed the following topics (yes, all in Spanish):
- what's a token heterosexual
- money laundering in NY and Bankok
- bribes
- sexual harrassment at primary schools
- under the table dealings in Argentina
- corruption
- legal terms
- office politics

It was kind of an amazingly hilarious morning. Before we left the place, we were checking out a hot, muscular guy across from us (there was actually a customer!), yes all of us minus the straight guy.