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Mar. 25th, 2002 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pluralso 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
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
