So Sunday I said we were going to have a Super Bowl party and now we've had it. So basically we're 4 hours ahead of Texas so the Super Bowl was kinda late for us. But Uruguayans like to stay up late. Our director said the only time she's had to wait for a table at a restaurant was at midnight and birthday parties here basically are an all night deal. But yes they invited several Uruguayans and a couple Americans who live here. They were really into it. I basically ate and talked with some of the girls. They had no clue what was going on and I don't know a lot about football so imagine how hard it is to explain football to people, in spanish. Not easy. I didn't try. I thought about it and tried to think what I might say but it just wasn't happening so I didn't try. They hadn't ever seen American football before and one of the girls told me that she thought it was strange. She also wondered why there were so many commercials. After half time the girls left so I cleaned up a bit and went to bed. But the guys stayed up to watch it all. And apparently it was excited because there was no yelling the first half but there sure was the second (the one I was trying to sleep...) Luckily it didn't keep me up all night. It was a cool experience to get to watch it with Uruguayans. But they got bored pretty fast. Frankly I did too. I've never been much of a fan of American football.
Monday night we had a Tango lesson. Tango is a style of dance that comes from the Rio de la Plata region (not just Argentina). So they had a couple people over to teach us the basics of tango all in 1 1/2 hours. We kinda got the hang of it. But not really. It was really fun though. We learned how to walk right in tango. Unlike swing where you keep low to the ground in tango you stand tall on your toes. Swing's more fun but tango is cool. But it's kinda slow...but it's a really important part of the culture of the Rio de la Plata region (Montevideo/Buenos Aires) and the lesson was a lot of fun. We talked about going and taking a lesson or two from the people who came because they teach weekly classes at El Mercado de la Abundancia.
Good news today in Spanish class I understood a lot more! But for some reason I can never understand when she asks me a question directly so I think she thinks I can't understand her at all and that I'm lying when I say I can. But I'm getting more and more use to the accent so that it is normal and when I see a word like "yo" or "playa" or "calle"my first instinct is to say it the Uruguayan way. Which is pretty cool! Some still confuse me especially if I'm hearing it and it's a word that isn't as common. And for some reason "ayer" messes me up. You don't realize how many words have "y" or "ll" in it until the sound changes.
Well there's not a ton that's going on this week that I know of. Maybe another party this weekend, and next week being carnaval we don't have Spanish classes and then we go to Buenos Aires a week from Friday! Time's already flying!
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