Salsa or Seltza (say it fast)

Trip Start Jul 09, 2008
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Sunday, July 13, 2008

Well luckily for us it was neither. When they said dancing they actually meant normal dancing at a night club. Here we were thinking that we'd be awkwardly throwing each other around some dance floor while Chileans were masterfully dancing the salsa and tango around us.
 
We went out for dinner in a great little Japanese restaurant in Bellavista which turns into a night club when everyone finishes eating. We met Ivan's wife, Carmen. She is lovely. She was very nervous about speaking English at first but a couple of glasses of Chilean merlot and she was fine. Her English is actually very good. She did a few lessons about a year ago and has just learned the rest from watching TV. She said that this was her very first conversation in English!
 
Conversation was actually pretty good. It was just a little hard to joke around. At one point they tried to say something about how nice we were. The word they used sounded like pathetic. It was something completely different but just sounded like that. So Mark and I had a laugh at it and tried to explain that we thought they said pathetic using the dictionary. But I'm not sure if they didn't understand what we were talking about or whether they then thought we were saying they were pathetic. Whatever the case, a little bit of silence and then we continued chatting away.
 
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