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so i
ventured out today to perform the following tasks

Locate the Brazilian Consulate and obtain a tourist visa
i first located the embassy and from there managed to find the consulate
but apparently they don't do visas on mondays so I have to go back tomorrow

Locate the National Synagogue and find out the location of the Orthodox Synagogue in Santiago
I located the National Synagogue but it was closed, I was told to return at six as it would be open for services
but as it is six now, and I am not feeling up to venturing out for a bit.

Buy a pair of black dressy-ish shoes and perhaps even some nicer clothes
as i have only khakis and short sleeve button ups

complete and utter failure
i went to two different malls
and into what seemed to be rather upscale department stores
ala Nordstroms back home
i was unable to find the mens shoe department in either
in one i located a department selling mens athletic shoes
but was unable to find those of a more formal nature

however for the most part
i do not regret my lack of conversational spanish
it is improving and in the mean time
i am enjoying the adventures it brings
every meal has been most exciting with
me having only the slightest idea what exactly
i have ordered and in some cases
even what i am eating
[generally it is chicken something or other]

and i have noticed
to mine own amusement that
my grace with accents and pronunciation
has only increased my difficulties
as i generally only know
how to ask for what i want
or where i am going and
people tend to assume that my
spanish is better than it is
when i begin to speak
only to find me utterly clueless
to their responding queries

ahh what joy
but with the exception of
the time I'll be living in brazil
i will be spending a lot of time
in countries that speak spanish
so
i am confidant that
either i will learn spanish
or
i will have some very amusing times
trying to fake it

ah well
i think i will relax a bit before dinner
perhaps go to the supermarket
i have not yet been but find it an interesting
place to study the life of a culture
and
afterwards i believe I will seek out
a few nightclubs for the requisite
drinking and dancing

Comments

[dew.livejournal.com]

You don't even need to be in a country where the language is not English. While in s Australia I ordered a decaf coffee with cream......what I got was a cappacino with whipping cream. BTW I was after a flat white.

Got the deer in the headlights look when we talked about getting carry out food. They called it take away.

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yep
two countries
divided by a common
language

[coven.livejournal.com]

Wasn?t it Wilde who said that the English and the Americans have everything in common except the language?

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i will freely admit
that the sentiment was paraphrasing
anothers words
that i did not credit them
is only because i am unable to
remember to whom the belong
but i suspect
wilde would be as likely a candidate
as any

his wit was second to none