Clanmate, Teacher, Interpreter???

Me: In a building somewhere in the Philippines, there was a Filipino and an American waiting for the elevator. The door opened and there was another Filipino inside the elevator.

Filipino outside the elevator : Bababa? (going down?)
Filipino inside the elevator: Bababa! (going down!)
American: are you guys aliens????

Kboy: who's going down????? hmmm...

          Me: (perv!)

Kiheiboy, he went to Hawaii when he was young, he doesn't speaks Tagalog anymore, he can't remember if he ever spoken it when he was young. He's cool, very open and frank, We started talking and joking and I start teaching him a few tagalog words.


Ano, sino, bakit, saan, boom panes! It's what, who, why and where. Oh last one is kinda hard to explain. Those were the first words I thought him. And he will pretend he can understand tagalog in the chat box by using those words. He was so cute.


I was never really a teacher to him, he learned a lot of words on his own. He's level 3 tagalog speaker now. He wants to impress me? I am, always.


We first saw each other's photo on our clan facebook page.

As a clanmate, he always likes my ideas. He always say I'm smart, cool and all that. I take it as him playin' around, flirting, being a guy. I do admit now that the attention was fun. If we were both online we will flood the chat box, forget raiding, we were just either joking around or even talking about serious life stuff. I learned that he is a single dad, and that he doesn't know his biological father.


Honestly my first impression of him is that he's funny but a bit of an asshole. Maybe its the way he talks, like the word shit is part of his grammar. Maybe that's why some clanmates thinks his rude or arrogant. Well i did not, I always have fun talking with him.


URBAN DICTIONARY, I have never used it as often as before I started talking with him. Specially when he started calling me MAMI. I know he is not a puerto rican and I know it can mean something else other than mother, but back then I try to consider it as him calling me mother. Well I am a mom and everyone in the clan knows it, I have a then 4  (now 5)years old daughter. Does it makes sense that he calls me mom? I am well aware what he means, hahaha. I just ignore it. He still calls me mami, or baby or smiles.


The interpreter, tagalog to english, english to tagalog. Eventually clan members got more comfortable with him seeing how funny and talkative he is, he's the most talkative one in the clan during that time, and since I am the clan resident English teacher and his pretend tagalog teacher I get to translate for everyone. I even get to translate for THOR, another character of this love story but a story for another day.


I was a clanmate, a teacher an interpreter to him/for him about 8 months ago. What he was to me then was a clanmate who has a cool humor who flatters me a lot. What I am to him now is his woman, what he is to me now is my life.