Rob takes up acting and helps a friend in the process

So this past week one of my host sister's close friends, Jennifer, was over the house for lunch and was feeling bad. She found out 3 weeks ago that her boyfriend of a year and a half was cheating on her. When she found out, she immediately broke up with him. He told her she would never find someone like him again and that she wouldn't be able to find anyone to date for a while. On Friday, she went to pick up her last remaining things that he, Earrly, had at his house. This included about 30 pictures of the two of them. To her surprise when going through the pictures at our house she found one of Earrly and his "new girlfriend" with a love note on the back dated almost 6 months earlier. Needless to say she was a little bit upset.

After thinking for a while, she asked us what we thought she should do...return the picture in person, mail it, do nothing. I joked with her that I could go with her posing as her new boyfriend to return the picture. Apparently I still need to work on my sarcasm in Spanish because she took me seriously asking if I would really do that for her. After thinking for a little bit about actually going through with the idea, I decided to have some fun with it. You know...when in Perú (I'm not sure if that really applies here, but that's what I said to myself). Jennifer was thrilled by the idea. An hour later I was out of the shower, in my best polo, practicing my lines for the show. With the scene that we had set up, I felt like I was getting ready for a movie shoot!

I went with Jennifer to the university where Earrly was just getting out of class. We waited for him for about 10 minutes before she spotted him walking toward us. She pointed him out to me and I stepped ahead of her to "return" the picture.

Rob: ¿Earrly?
Earrly: ¿Si?
Rob: I think I have something of yours. ¡Este no es de mi enamorada!
Translation: This isn't my girlfriend’s!

Early looked down at the picture a little confused. He then looked at me with Jennifer in the background. His face showed he was obviously upset. I turned, put my arm around Jennifer, gave her a kiss on the forehead and we walked away with him standing there holding the picture and still a little bit confused. When we got around the corner, Jennifer was ecstatic. She finally got the closure she wanted. The irony was that Jennifer worked had in the Netherlands for a short time about a year ago her then boyfriend kept worrying and asking her if the real reason she was working there was to find a foreigner to date. I think his worst fears were realized!

Until next time, keep livin' the dream!