School has started up again, and in my Spanish 102 class we are reviewing things from last semester.

Today we were going back over numbers, family, descriptions, and dates.

Our professor asked us to describe (in Spanish) our mothers and fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, brother, sisters, and etc. He then asked us to describe our novios if we were a girl, or our novias if we were a boy. Novio = boyfriend.

The boy who sits behind me shouted out, “Boys can have novios too! I have one. His name is Charlie.”

Our professor shrugged and rolled his eyes a little bit. The baseball player sitting next to the boy scooted his chair as far away as he could, without wanting to be extremely rude. We moved on to describing our sanchos (sancho = 2nd boyfriend, boyfriend on the side).

Twenty minutes later the boy shouted out again. “Ohh! Novio means boyfriend?! I thought it meant cousin! I am not gay, just to clarify things. Ladies, I am open!”