Fishy Seduction

Wooooooooooooooooooow Haha-

Where do I start?

Well, i'm better now. Forgive my graphic chunky language but my diarrhea is over with at the present moment. Water is my friend. It always was though. Unfortunately, another student here has contracted it. To make things worse, like I already said, anyone who already had this virus is at risk of getting it again. Yeah, it's a no-immunity virus. 

Sounds painful, doesn't it?

Alright, alright no more woe is me nonsense! On to some actually funny stuff-

Haha

Wow. So I set out on a mission: buy ramen noodles. I thought that it was a familiar, simple food and that I could easily buy some at the local grocery store. 

I thought wrong.

See, I knew ramen would be at the grocery store because I saw other students coming back with some. I knew some was there. I was going to buy several!

After 30 minutes of looking through the aisles of this grocery store in Montevideo, I came to the conclusion that I was far too tired and a small percentage (5%) of icky-sickness still remained in me. That percentage consisted of feeling dizzy and being tired. While stumbling through the aisles in a dizzy daze of dozy-ness, I finally ran into an employee named German (pronounced with a silent G) who kind of understood my broken Spanish. I said that I wanted ramen noodles-that it was similar (see-me-lar) to all other past but in plastico.

That didn't work

But I made a friend out of it! German is a cool guy. I didn't ask his age, but he looked about my age. Anyway, finally a woman who knew a little bit more english was introduced to me and I told her what I wanted. 

'Ramen Noodles' I said as I realized there were Ramen Noodles staring me in the face on the aisle facing me. 

Frustrating, I know. But it does leave me with a funny story and a priceless Uruguayan smile. 

On my way back to Casa ACU, I stopped to get some Pepsi at the burger stand very near the house. 

Haha-to let you know, my fictional game plan, if you will, was to strategically seduce a latin lover (in christian love). When I stopped to get a pepsi, I knew that this employee, 19-year old Chantida (sp?) would want to talk to me for a while about... well, things in Spanish that I don't quite understand yet. I figured, i'm on a roll with crazy/funny things happening to me, why not get a pepsi here and talk to this girl I barely know who likes me. (the picture above is not of this girl. It's of me and a friend. Just a friend)

Really, all that happened was that I promised, like I did in the grocery store, to return tomorrow (manana) and say hi. So, I have two appointments tomorrow: one with German and Juan (other employee) at the grocery store and one with this hamburger stand girl who likes me (don't worry, the feeling isn't mutual).

I'm back at the house now, writing this, eating my shrimp flavored ramen and smiling as I type all of this.

I don't even like shrimp that much. Cause it's like fish.

So, what? I'm paying tuition to be lost in grocery stores and be seduced BY a Uruguayan girl? ha- maybe i'm paying tuition to make friends here and come away with some pretty good stories.

Whew. 

I guess i'll call it a night and be thankful I was blessed with two funny stories and two new friends. 

God Bless you

(Dios te bendiga)