This morning, just before 7 am, I woke up (again) to chanting and the sound of synchronized footsteps outside my window: a group of over 50 people, mostly men I think, running through the road in straight lines yelling something I wasn't able to understand. Our host mother says it's the vigilante police force. They apparently don't have the power of arrest or the right to bare arms, but they're paid for by the municipality to make it safer.
I just want to know what they're all about, and what it is, exactly, that they do when they're not waking people up at 6:30 in the morning.
Secondly, I was just wondering if anyone knows any ways to talk about or ask about someone's partner using gender nuetral terms in Spanish? I recently learned about putting an 'x' instead of an 'o' or an 'a' in the article of a word or in a gendered word itself, but I don't know how / if this is applied to oral conversation ever. So... if anyone has any insight, I am made of ears.
Now, off to orientation!
Unfortunately, there are no gender neutral terms in Spanish. But with my friend we sometimes put an 'e' instead of an 'o' or an 'a'. You would be totally gringe.
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