GYM Dialect in translation

 I know the F.B.I. and C.I.A. have employment in linguistics in translation however when I first moved to California the English language is different from my training in Wisconsin.

I was in P.E. in the Gym, I was sitting on the ground with several females that I was introduced too.

We were talking about vacations.   There was a blond and she said, "she was from organ." 

 "I said, organ?!"

"Where's that?!"  I said.

She said" it was up, with a question mark on her face."

In a group setting all the other females asked, "don't you know where organ is?!"

I looked up.

"NO!!!!" they screamed.

"Not in here!!!!"  She said.

I said, "what city is in it?!"

She  said, "Portland, Organ."

"Oh"...I said, bouncing my head up in down in understanding that she said, it wrong.

Where I used to live ....we said, "OR-E-GON"  (the E was an A)

Then everybody looked at me and asked where I was from?

and I said, "Wisconsin.."

"Really?!"  "Where is that in Europe?"  "What Nation is that?!"  They asked.

"No."  "Wisconsin..."I said it slower this time.

"Ok."  "What was the city?!"  They asked.

And I spelled it out real slow.

"O-CO-NO-MO-WOC." (THEN I said it real fast,  Oconomowoc).

They all nodded there heads, but before they could ask me any more questions our Japanese P.E.  teacher told us to get up, and she told us the basics.

In the early morning (8am) we were to run around the outside of the school, run from the sporting area to the outside of the school fence and run on the sidewalk, run to the school parking lot, and the school pool(where there is a morning class) and then back to the gym.   

I did this for 3 months.

The very first vacation trip in California

 It was Vacation in California and the very first trip was to visit why California was so famous.

California was famous for gold mines.   So, my siblings and parents went to a Gold mine in the State Parks.  We had a history lesson about the mining industry.   Then we took a tour of a retired gold mine in train seats as if we were on the trolley in San Francisco roads.    The tour guide would stop every now and then to give us a history lesson on the individuals whom worked there including the type of tools used and any side information of backgrounds.

Then the best part......we got to pan for GOLD in a river that was nearby.   We were showed what to do and look for in the river.   I only found one tiny flake.   The pans that we used, we had to pay for and it was only like 10 dollars per pan equipment.   You were only given a 20-30 minute use of the pan, then you had to give it back to the tour guide.

It was a very neat and interesting vacation trip.