mi vida personal (or not so personal)

My students like to ask me personal questions.

"Estas usando ropa interior?" (are you wearing underwear?)
"Miss, tienes un pololo?" (do you have a boyfriend?)
etc etc etc

Whatever i do outside of the school is noticed, passed ear to ear, and somehow gets back to me. For example, if i go out to the grocery store, i always run into a student. If i am walking on the street, the next day 5 students will tell me they saw me. I am constantly being watched. I am a gringa-celebrity-teacher.

I was asked an even more surprising question this past week during taller
(though not entirely alarming)
"Miss, estas embarazada?" (are you pregnant...not to be confused with are you embarrassed?)

I was standing with my stomach forward (my horrid posture) and looking at my tummy when my student asked me. I burst into laughter...thinking that i have put on some weight (damn chilean bread and yummy sweets!) and that i had missed 2 weeks of school.

1 hour later, I was walking back from buying a sackful of bread for the family to have once. A frazzled woman in her 40s asked me in passing: "Como esta su gua gua?" (How is your baby?)

"Que?! No tengo una gua gua!" (What! i dont have a baby!)
*some spanish sound like "hmp or ohh!" and then she continued on her way.

What an odd coincidence! My Chilean family tried to comfort me by explaining that she must have confused me with someone else....but what other gringa is in my neighborhood?

true or false. the stories of my life are not so personal anymore.