Hunting for 'Eggs'

Now I must warn you, the title may be a little misleading here as I did not actually participate in an Easter Egg hunt. In fact I am just writing this blog because I thought you might miss hearing about the silly things I say in Spanish. School is back in session and so is the inappropriateness!

To give a little context last night we were teaching our adult English class about how to say things like "I am going to..." and then had them write about what they are going to be doing during Holy Week. We then broke into groups and discussed what they had written. My group then asked me what kind of things we do in the United States and about our customs for Easter. So I told them about several things and was concluding with Easter egg hunts. I didn't at the time know the Spanish word for 'hunt,' so I said the word for search. A discussion then ensued and they taught me the real word for hunt, which is cazar. I wrote it on the board to make sure I was spelling it right.

One of the students then asked me, "te gusta cazar" (do you like to hunt?) and I responded with a simple "si, por huevos" (yes, for eggs) of course referring to the Easter egg hunts I had just described. The group erupted with uncontrollable laughter and it took me a second to realize why....

Huevos (eggs) is slang for testicles.

Some of the male students then proceeded to leave covering themselves and laughing at me.

That is all.