day 1: embarrassment and failure
March 30th 2006 yesss... two of my favorite things. well, with all our planning and arranging, we ran out of time to learn portuguese. no problem, i thought. we'll pick it up along the way. i know spanish, i'm sure we'll be fine.
i was unaware that portuguese sounds a lot like what i imagine to be italian and latin...spoken backwards. and that practically no one speaks english and can thus guide us through
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