EnglishisEasy/Elinglésesfácil

(Seconds before biting the cake) : "Why are their hands so close to the back of my head?" English lacks one specific term to refer to that person who is celebrating their birthday which means we will always need two words. If it is a CUMPLEAÑERO then we say BIRTHDAY BOY. If it is a CUMPLEAÑERA then we say BIRTHDAY GIRL. It is uncommon to say BIRTHDAY MAN or BIRTHDAY WOMAN. If we don't want to specify gender we can say BIRTHDAY PERSON, though. It is possible to say CUMPLEAÑEROS as BIRTHDAY FOLKS. In Spanish, we call those who celebrate their birthdays in the same month as LOS CUMPLEAÑEROS DE (name of month). In English something similar is said but the emphasis is on the days not the people, e.g. OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS would be translated as LOS CUMPLEAÑEROS DE OCTUBRE when it really means LOS CUMPLEAÑOS DE OCTUBRE.

You can't see them but the guards are inside sleeping...erm...watching over us. To put the word GARITA in Spanish is no easy matter because a GARITA can have several purposes and the name varies accordingly. If it is for military purposes then it is a WATCHTOWER or a SENTRY OUTPOST. If the idea is only to exert some sort of control on who gets in and who gets out of a certain place then it is called a CHECKPOINT BOOTH or just a CHECKPOINT. This is perhaps the closest in meaning to the common definition of what a GARITA is in Latin America where closed private neighborhoods are abundant and many restrict the entrance by placing GARITAS with hired guards to look after things (as shown in the picture).  There is also the term PORTER'S LODGE which is a good option as well.