http://www.uruguayliving.com/2006/09/29/3-sheets-to-the-wind/ Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:30:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.uruguayliving.com/2006/09/29/3-sheets-to-the-wind/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Gloria Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.uruguayliving.com/2006/09/29/3-sheets-to-the-wind/#comment-29 Well, I have been privy to the tour of the local club scene courtesy the Uruguaya friend I am staying with - most recently within the Parque Rodo (?). I am discovering that when you speak English in these places people turn around and look at you and those who want to talk speak right up. It is like being a minor (very) celebrity. People want to hear you talk and tell their stories of when they lived abroad. Kinda fun. It is a good (?, depending) way to meet people but if you want to keep your Spanish chops up perhaps not speaking so loud is also good. Then again, I had someone come up to me to talk because I had the face of a "Gringa". The jig was up! I had been spotted. What a nice place. Well, I have been privy to the tour of the local club scene courtesy the Uruguaya friend I am staying with – most recently within the Parque Rodo (?). I am discovering that when you speak English in these places people turn around and look at you and those who want to talk speak right up. It is like being a minor (very) celebrity. People want to hear you talk and tell their stories of when they lived abroad. Kinda fun. It is a good (?, depending) way to meet people but if you want to keep your Spanish chops up perhaps not speaking so loud is also good. Then again, I had someone come up to me to talk because I had the face of a “Gringa”. The jig was up! I had been spotted. What a nice place.

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