Watching Clone

I swear that was Sinead O'Connor making an appearance on Clone tonight. Clone is a popular Brazilian soap opera that has been imported and dubbed in Ukrainian. It's on 5 nights a week, and I watch it every night with my host family. I'm not sure how long it's been running, but not more than a few months, so it probably only has another few months left. I'd give you a summary of the plot, but...well, it's a soap opera. A summary would take a long time.

Watching Clone is a bit of a surreal experience, because I think I should understand it, but I don't. The original language, which I can usually here a fair amount of underneath the dubbing, is Portuguese. Portuguese is close enough to Spanish that I almostfeel like I should be able to understand it. Ukrainian, the language it's dubbed to, is close enough to Russian that I feel like I should understand it.

It's an odd feeling.

Of course, if it were in Russian I probably still wouldn't understand everything, but more of it would make sense.

But what was Sinead O'Connor doing on a Brazilian soap? Was that really her? It sounded like her. It looked like her. But I thought she was off being monkish somewhere. Maybe she needed money?

So weird. Maybe it's my imagination.