One thing that I really hate...or find extremely difficult, to be more diplomatic, is that I can´t walk to places. It´s the heat. People just stay in the shade and take the bus and move in the sun as little as possible. But since I don´t know how to use buses I´ve had to walk a little bit. On Sunday I found out that my working place is only a 30 min walk away from where I live. The problem is that in order for me to be able to walk to work the working place should be situated max a 10 min walk away from my house. And now we are in the cool period. I can´t wait for the real heat to begin.
I took the bus to work for the first time this morning. A guy from Aiesec, José, whose place I stayed at for the first five days, has been driving me to work. I could get used to someone driving me around all the time, but I´m afraid I´m just going to have to learn to use buses. Naturally there are no schedules for the buses, and I have to tell the driver when and where I want to get off. What a wonderful opportunity for me to be able to practise my Spanish.
Today I walked to the supermarket. It is a 45 min walk from my house, but really I can´t buy any milkproducts or cheese or anything that will spoil in the heat as long as I am walking. Fortunately my flatmate said that we can go grocery shopping together on Saturday.
What else, I had my welcome party on Saturday and met new Aiesec faces and I have some new numbers on my mobile. Everybody keeps asking me how old I am, which is always a good way to make one feel at ease (since everybody else is 22). And everybody highlightes the importance of learning the magic word "verga" only used in Maracaibo and which the Marracucho dialect, or language I should say, is based on. You say: "como esta la verga", when you meet someone, "vergacion" when you are surprised, and so one. The ways to use this word are numerous. Anyways, the people here are very proud of their region (I was warned about this in Caracas) and more religious than the people in Caracas. One thing I have to mention about the party was that we were playing drinking games and!!! some guys took the drinks for some girls. Girls really do not drink a lot here. José kindly offered to take my drinks for me and I (rudely) informed him that I am quite capable of drinking my alcohol myself, than you very much. Was a nice party, really.
I´m happy to be able to inform you that the roach has not visited me since the first evening. There are some small roaches in the bathroom and kitchen but they are really cute compared to the big ones and don´t bother me.
I finished reading the first short story in Spanish in my book of cuentas (short stories). I understood enough to enjoy it. Yeppeee!
I took the bus to work for the first time this morning. A guy from Aiesec, José, whose place I stayed at for the first five days, has been driving me to work. I could get used to someone driving me around all the time, but I´m afraid I´m just going to have to learn to use buses. Naturally there are no schedules for the buses, and I have to tell the driver when and where I want to get off. What a wonderful opportunity for me to be able to practise my Spanish.
Today I walked to the supermarket. It is a 45 min walk from my house, but really I can´t buy any milkproducts or cheese or anything that will spoil in the heat as long as I am walking. Fortunately my flatmate said that we can go grocery shopping together on Saturday.
What else, I had my welcome party on Saturday and met new Aiesec faces and I have some new numbers on my mobile. Everybody keeps asking me how old I am, which is always a good way to make one feel at ease (since everybody else is 22). And everybody highlightes the importance of learning the magic word "verga" only used in Maracaibo and which the Marracucho dialect, or language I should say, is based on. You say: "como esta la verga", when you meet someone, "vergacion" when you are surprised, and so one. The ways to use this word are numerous. Anyways, the people here are very proud of their region (I was warned about this in Caracas) and more religious than the people in Caracas. One thing I have to mention about the party was that we were playing drinking games and!!! some guys took the drinks for some girls. Girls really do not drink a lot here. José kindly offered to take my drinks for me and I (rudely) informed him that I am quite capable of drinking my alcohol myself, than you very much. Was a nice party, really.
I´m happy to be able to inform you that the roach has not visited me since the first evening. There are some small roaches in the bathroom and kitchen but they are really cute compared to the big ones and don´t bother me.
I finished reading the first short story in Spanish in my book of cuentas (short stories). I understood enough to enjoy it. Yeppeee!
posted by Larubia at 6:54 PM
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Just tell them that blonds can hold their liquor! I'm really impressed, even after learning Spanish grammer and such in college (backwards since I could already speak from ecuador), I'm still almost illeterate in Spanish!
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