Week 3 Day 2

Draft-

Growing up, there was one specific word that just stuck with me until now. I honestly use this word very frequently, which later on as I explain the meaning behind this word isn’t such a good thing. The word I am speaking about is “hueva”, what might his word mean? Give it some thought. Sure, it may sound like the Spanish word “huevo” which stands for eggs in English, I can assure you it isn’t that., if you look up the word on google, you’ll see it stands for “roe”. In my community we use this word whenever someone is feeling lethargic.

Remembering the time, I first encountered this word was actually very hilarious, it was a very dull day perfect for what I had been doing. I remember sitting watching playing my PlayStation 3, not a care in the world. All of a sudden, I hear my name cry out loud, “BRIANNN” I pay no mind focused on my own little world. My mom ended up coming into my room upset at the fact that I ignored her the first few times. She had asked me to do chores, I of course was too lazy to do anything and just wanted to be cooped up in my bed and ended up doing chores which only lead to more. For some reason after completing my chores I was energetic and motivated, I remember telling my mom how we still needed to go to the supermarket to go buy for tonight’s dinner. To my surprise she had forgotten about it and replied with the words, “ay tengo hueva”. I was dumbfounded by the words my mother muttered, not knowing what she said exactly.

I looked at her confused and asked her what exactly she said, the first thing that came into mind was “did she just say a bad word” and wondering if what she had said was intentional or not. My mother proceeds to say it again thinking I would get it the second time but nope. I looked around wondering if there were any eggs near because I thought that’s what she was talking about. After much thinking I finally understood what she meant. I was even more shocked to learn that she was too lazy to go out. I asked her where she learned that word or where it came from, funny enough she didn’t know and just told me she learned it from her parents back in Mexico. At the moment I was very curious as to where the word originated from and why many people in Mexico started to use this word more instead of others like “flojera” (lazy). Later on, that day, my father came home, and I proceeded to ask if he had “hueva” to go to work. He laughed and bluntly said “always ahaha”. We all began to laugh and spoke more of how I came about using that word. I remember being all happy because the word itself sounded funny, so I was excited to use the word.

As I grew older, I would jokingly say to my parents and friends whenever I wanted, they wanted to go out that I had “Mucha hueva” and just wanted to stay home, or they would say “Ven para que se te vaya la hueva” (come so you can remove that laziness). The word is used very much in my community. I know that because I know I am not the only one who has “hueva” ahaha. It grew a lot on me and looking back, I remember hearing that word again in my class by one of my friends and was surprised he had known it too. I asked him how he came about that word he replied saying “ahaha my father says that word a lot”.