Today we checked out of our hotel and moved into our hostal. Tim has been really nailing his conversations with the owner, mine are still lacking. Its a pretty decent place made just for students, but i havent seen anyone else living here yet.
I went back to the hotel to get a shirt i forgot and my poor vocabulario espanol really shone through. I said I forgot my "camiseta" when I meant "camisa", it was a long sleeve button up shirt, but they brought down a regular tshirt with a sailboat or something on it. I forgot which was which so I went with the one with the longer name. But the maid and front desk seemed to think it was pretty funny.
Tonight we went to a brazilian bar tonight to watch the brazil vs. france futbol game. It was a lot crazier than going to a bar backhome to watch american football. They were all different ages and a guy came in with a drum and a whistle and everyone started dancing to it. Jesse got pulled into it against his wishs and was forced to dance.
When the game was over some guys tried talking with us and asked where we were from and who we were cheering for and stuff. Jenny asked where they could find good food and thats when things got crazy. The group of 4 guys were from venezuela and spoke almost no english, but they thought it was very funny to say some obscene phrases (it actually was pretty funny). They took us to this bar/cafe up the street and everyone there loved us for some reason. They sat us down at a big table and started bringing us different types of food from venezuela while trying to teach us how to pronounce different things and say them in english also. The food was VERY good, there was a plate of chicken, beef, black beans, and these fried potato things you cut open and fill with stuff. They brought out these things that were like a cross between cornbread and pancakes folded over some type of cheese, they were one of my favorite things there. There were also fried bananas that I thought would be bad but were very good. The owner wrote down the names of everything we had but Jenny has the list. Its hard for me to describe the atmosphere in the bar but they really made us feel like family and it was one of the craziest cultural experiences of my life.
Later that night we went out with our friends we met who have been going to school here and they showed us around the nightlife some more.
