I am from Colombia and I have lived in Worcester, MA, for 2 ½ years. I have been married for 1 ½ years. My husband is from United States. We met in our work. He started to work two months later than me in the same company. When I met him I didn't speak English.

Sometimes I had to pass through his area and he tried to speak with me, but I didn't understand anything, and he doesn't speak Spanish. We found the way to communicate together. We make signs with the hands. That was so funny we laughed every time.

One day a co-worker from Korea asked Todd: Do you like that lady? Todd said: I like her but I don't know if she is single. Our co-worker said: she is single. And a few minutes later, Todd was in my area, he gave me a piece of paper with his phone number and he did signs with his hands. I understood he wanted that I will call him.

I kept the paper but I didn't call him. I thought: I'm not going to call him. I don't speak English. What am I going to say to him? Hi and Bye? He insisted so many times but I didn't call him. Then Todd found a person to explain to me in Spanish that he was divorced and he wanted to begin a serious relationship with me.

One day I called him. I didn't understand him too much and I know he didn't understand me too much either but it was the first step. Then we bought dictionaries English-Spanish for each one. We used them in our dates for some months. A few months later, we were married.