Kumusta?

As I was saying previously, I was going to brush up on my Spanish. I dug into my old "baul" (chest) of school stuff (yep, still have them heheh) and found my sister's Spanish 1/2 book. Wonder where mine is? Ooh yeah, I think I donated it or something...

Anyways, as I was doing the first exercise, the phrase Como esta (vd.) came up. And I thought about the Filipino term of salutation, "kumusta" which is a derivation of the Spanish Como esta. We have been influenced a lot by Mother Spain. But it's funny how most Filipinos would love to get a US green card. Just look, there are no queues in the Spanish Embassy vs the conga lines in the US Embassy.