Saturday, September 09, 2006

Talking about football/soccer...I really would have liked to have seen the game Finland vs. Portugal. For those who don´t know, Finland and Portugal played a tie, and I heard that it was a good game for Finland - that is "we" could have won. Wow! But football is not the sport the Venezuelans are passionate about, here game nr one is baseball. However, the other day the shopkeeper at the bakery where I go to buy my lunch most of the days asked me where I was from and when I said Finland he immediately replied: "Häkkinen" and I said yes, and "Räikkönen". It was a beautiful moment.

Today has been a day of immense progress. I took the carrito by myself, not once but four times! A peruvian girl invited me to come and watch her salsa class. She suggested that I take a taxi, but I decided to ask my roommate and her boyfriend where this salsa thing it is situated and see if I could get there by carrito. And so, I had to take two carritos. It was ok, just that once the driver didn´t understand that I wanted to get off so I had to walk one extra block, no big deal.

And next week I migth start salsa classes. That would be something. The classes looked like a lot of fun, the people were friendly, and the teacher was cute. What more can you ask for?

1 Comments:

Blogger Emily said...

DEFINATELY take the classes!! I met so, so many cool people when I took dance lessions. And I am now able to passably dance with most guys who are stong leads. . . ;) I'm sure you'll excel over me though!

I've heard that Baseball is the thing with Venezulans. Might want to work on your ball, bat, and diamond lingo.

PS: congrats on the carro!

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