FEb17

Another crazy day I had, I woke early and left the house early thinking I was late for class. After class, I wonder around with Sarah.  We just enter to stores and check things out and found a cute shirt but I did not know what was the meaning of “ate”’ and “var.” I asked  the lady in the store and she tried to explain us, by saying, “ 10 pesas barato”and I was wow here they weight cloths or what she means by pesas, in Spanish pesas are weights. I was sort of confused and asked her to write to me what she meant. She wrote if you buy 10 pieces then you will get a discount for the first one. Sarah and I were wondering who would buy ten shirts. I think we misunderstood.  Next store was a shoe store and man those shoes were expensive, as again we try to understand what the 12x meant and that lady said that if you can’t pay for the price of the shoes then you pay monthly.  Then, in the next store I did not know what shoe size I was and  tried to tell the store lady that I just want to know what shoe size I am and that I don’t want to buy some yet. She said, you want to “experimentar,” meaning to experiment. I was yeah and she took me to the back side. The shoes size 36 did not fit me they were tight so the lady said, estan apestosos, and I was mad at her because I thought she said I have stinky feet. Then I realize she said that  the shoes are too tight and that she would bring another one.  Since then I stopped thinking that most of the words in Portuguese have different meaning from the words in Spanish.   In the stores, I felt weird that some ladies in charge of the store  follow us once we got  inside their store, I like personally to not be bother but here they follow  the person. I  tried  to see if most of the store do that so I went into a store for travelers. I was just looking and one lady asked me if I need anything and I said I am just looking. I move to the corner and she followed me then I move to the other corner and she was still following me and then I was scare and got out of there.

I was so exhausted and waited for the bus stop for 40 minutes. I was so inpatient and a lady approach me and said to be patient and then I told her that bus is not coming on time. Then She started talking to me wondering where I am from so I said Ecuador. Then she told me she was taking Spanish classes and wants to practice so she can visit other Latin American countries such as Ecuador, Chile etc.  She gave me her email address to stay in touch with her.  It’s interested for me to hear how some people love the language Spanish. I thought that most Brazilians do not like Spanish like one of my friend told me. She said that Spanish is not that popular and that most students speak in English not Spanish. I found this interesting.