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Hey! Thanks for sharing, and great Spanish BTW!

I was disconnected from everything for personal reasons and I hadn't seen your post. I'm glad you like it =)

I'll be sharing the source code for next weeks and an update for the weekly Magazine/Newspaper soon. ¡Salud!

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~ew wrote (thread):

> ... and great Spanish BTW!

Oh well. If I count all the weeks I have spent in Latin America I might well cover more than a year. And I could get by organizing accomodation, bus tickets, food ... Most important phrase: "Yo no soy Americano". Which puts a smile into a lot of faces. "Ay no? Ay, ¿de donde viene?" ... "Ay, ¡de Alemania! ¡Que bien!" ... followed by an enthusiastic speech about Bundesliga, Mercedes trucks, and a number of other well known things ... Splendid!

Most difficult question: "¡Cuánto vale el vuelo?" How much was the flight. Now I could just say how much it was, but can anyone relate to this number? And what it meant to me? I resorted to explain that I had to work for one year straight to pay for the flight. Much better.

But I never managed to read a good book in Spanish, like "La región más transparente" or similar by Carlos Fuentes. I was sitting inside the "Casa de los Azulejos" in México DF, and thinking about the scenes in "La cabeza de la hidra". He sure was sitting here as well. And the characters from the novel. I do have very fond memories of México DF and all the time I spend in Latin America. It took me all the way south as far as Fuerte Bulnes overlooking the Straight of Magellan.

As I said in another post: Go out, look, marvel at what you see, hear, smell, taste, feel ... the planet is full of worthy discoveries.

It's a bit early in the day for another Margarita, so maybe a "Negra Modelo" or a "Tres Equis" would do. Cheers! And thanks for your nice reply!