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Francesca Bossert's avatar

This made me laugh! I live part time in Spain and I think the PilatESS ladies are quite friendly.

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Lucy Pepper's avatar

I wonder if Mr Pilates knows, from beyond, all the crazy pronunciations of his name around the world

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Liza Debevec's avatar

The only place that I have seen defy this Portuguese non mixing thing is Biodanza. We not only say hello, we hug, we kiss and we know everyone’s name.

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Lucy Pepper's avatar

My god that sounds TERRIFYING

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Joanna Castillo's avatar

Sit down, elegantly! 🤣🤣

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Lucy Pepper's avatar

Impossible for 99.9995% of the world’s population, yet she says it every week. She’s a trooper!

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Beverly Wenger-Trayner's avatar

“If you’re a foreigner who they only met two years ago, you’re not one of them and you never will be”… I’m not offended, but I do feel left out!

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Lucy Pepper's avatar

It wears on one’s nerves sometimes, doesn’t it?

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Beverly Wenger-Trayner's avatar

Yes. It’s almost making me blog again!

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Peter Domican's avatar

Two words in Portuguese that I don’t need to know - hairdresser and Pilates.

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Lucy Pepper's avatar

Hahaha

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