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Tuesday 1 OcTOber 2024

Aruba Tourism Authority honored loyal visitors at Tamarijn Aruba

All Inclusive Resort!

guests who have visited Aruba 10, All Inclusive Resort bestowed the
20, or 35 years or more consecu- certificate upon the honorees,
tively. presented them with gifts, and
thanked them for choosing Aruba
The three levels of honor are as fol- as their favorite vacation desti-
lows: nation, as their home away from
Distinguished Visitor (10>years con- home.
secutively visiting Aruba)
Goodwill Ambassador (20>years The top reasons for returning to
consecutively visiting Aruba) Aruba provided by the honorees
Emerald Ambassador (35>years were:
consecutively visiting Aruba) • Aruba’s people.
• Aruba’s beaches.
The honorees were: • Aruba’s weather.
Distinguished Visitors • Aruba is safe.
Mr. William & Mrs. Lori Schroeder • “Tamarijn is like home”
The Aruba Tourism Authority re- and love for the island of Aruba. from Dumont New Jersey United
cently had the great pleasure of States. On behalf of the Aruba Tourism Au-
recognizing Distinguished Visitors The honorary certification is pre- thority, we would like to express our
of Aruba. The honorees were re- sented on behalf of the Minister Mr. Jorgino Willems representing sincere gratitude and appreciation
spectively honored with a certifi- of Tourism as a token of apprecia- the Aruba Tourism Authority, and to the honorees for their continued
cate for their years of visits, loyalty, tion and to say “Masha Danki” to staff members of Tamarijn Aruba visits to the “One Happy Island”.q

Papiamento words and phrases you may want to know!

(Oranjestad)—Aruba is probably the most famous also…kinda?). We may also hours, we use “bon tardi” to from younger locals, you
a melting pot of different Papiamento word for tour- use “te oro”, which means greet people, which means can also say “se”, which is
nationalities, cultures and ists. “see you later”. “good afternoon”. “Tardi” a more casual affirmative
languages. Primarily for this actually comes from the used mostly by the younger
reason, the average Aruban Hi! Bye! Greetings during the day word “atardi”, which direct- generation. However, do
can understand and speak To be fair, there is no unique Most, if not all, languages ly translates to “afternoon”. note: some older genera-
Dutch, English and Spanish way to say “hello” in Pa- have different ways to greet However, the shortened tions may find this improper
relatively well. However, as piamento. At least, not of- according to the time of “tardi” is used to keep the and not respectful, so keep
much as we pride ourselves ficially. We often just use day, and Papiamento is no rhythm on the phrase. And that in mind.
in being able to commu- the English “hello” or “hey”, different. Since Papiamento the same could be said for
nicate with almost every- or Dutch “hallo” to greet is heavily influences from our last greeting of the day. Thanks man…
one, we cherish our native someone. We do however, Portuguese and Spanish, 3. Bon nochi. You Lastly, a word that we can
tongue Papiamento above always follow it up with “con some of these phrases may guessed it, “bon nochi” also say more often is “dan-
all else. Want to learn some bay?” or “con ta?” Con look very familiar. means “good night”. Just ki”, which means literally
common words in our lan- bay is a shortened version of like “tardi”, “nochi” is actu- “thank you”. “Danki” is de-
guage? Here are a few ba- “con ta bay?”, which essen- 1. Bon dia is used in the ally the shortened version of rived from the Dutch word
sic words and phrases that tially means “how are you?” morning, up to about noon. the word “anochi”. “bedankt”. Though we
can get you a hat tip from The word “con” in Papia- Bon dia essentially means don’t really have a transla-
an Aruban. mento means “how?” and is good morning. The word Yes…no…maybe? tion for “I appreciate it” in
pronounced with a rounder “bon” means “good”, and The affirmative and nega- English, we do use “masha
When you arrive at the air- “o” sounds, like in the Eng- while “dia” does not directly tive expression is very sim- danki” to convey the mes-
port in Aruba, one of the lish word “cone”. “Ta bay” mean “morning” in English, ple in Papiamento. Just like sage. “Masha” means “a
first words in Papiamento refers to how you are doing. it is used often to refer to the Spanish, our yeses are “si” lot” or “very”, so “masha
you may encounter is “Bon When we say goodbye, we morning time. and our no’s are “no”. Pret- danki” means “thank you
bini.” Bon bini in Papiamen- use the word “ayo” (not like 2. Bon tardi. In the af- ty easy right? If you want very much”. q
to means welcome, and is the Ayo Rock Formation, but ternoon to early evening to gain some extra points