Another rainy day, but I wasn’t too upset about it. I’d rather have rain during the week, than on the weekends when we go on our little trips throughout southern Chile. Plus it helps me concentrate on work.
For dinner tonight we ate at the new sushi restaurant, Japon, nearby our apartment building. I met Cristian, Lily’s co-worker from Santiago, who was very funny and a great addition to our meal. The sushi was much better than I had expected, but every sushi roll had cream cheese in it. They love cream cheese down here, but it was too over-powering in the sushi and masked a lot of the taste of the fish itself. I’m not a huge sushi lover, but I like it in doses. Unfortunately, like most sushi meals I have, I never feel completely satisfied at the end and my stomach was a bit knotted up with all of the raw seafood I ate. I had planned on tonight being another great opportunity to practice Spanish, but every time I get around Nati and Martin, I clam up. It is so hard for me to keep up with the conversation, and I want to jump in with comments and stories in Spanish, but the conversation has moved before I have a chance to say something. It is really frustrating and makes me feel so of anti-social and unintelligent because I still can’t speak Spanish with them. I’m sure they think I am extremely uninteresting and shy too because I never say much around them. I’d love to change this, but I’m not exactly sure how to go about it. I suppose I’ll just have to jump in and say things that may not be completely relevant & at least give myself a chance at the practice.
I ended the night with Jaime and our 4th lesson. I’m starting to like this teaching thing.
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