Bruce Lee learns Spanish! Bow wow.

Alas, I have neglected this blog and I am very sorry. I promise not to have any more one picture posts until . . . next week.

Anyway, there are updates. On Sunday I took a ferry (see above) to Colonia, Uruguay, otherwise known as the "anti-Buenos Aires." In this strange tiny town you could hear birds chirping instead of cars roaring, and people actually rode little carts and motorbikes around. You could cross the street at a non-crosswalk without being torpedoed by a taxi driver. I brought along my camera and it was pretty much a day in heaven.

Also, we now have a celebrity at the Spanish school where I work. His name is Bruce Lee, and he's a 45-lb barking bundle of love brought to us each afternoon by two Bulgarian girls who take Spanish classes at our school. While he is not the martial artist/movie star we all know and love, he has made just as big of a hit with our students (not to mention with my boss).

While the girls take class, little Bruce hangs out on the patio.  The strangest part of all is not that the dog replies to commands in both Bulgarian and English (we're working on the Spanish, it's only his second day), but that several different people from various far-flung lands (Turkey, Argentina) have commented on Bruce the Bulgarian dog's likeness to Milo, the dog in "The Mask." I had no idea Jim Carrey movies were such international hits.

And . . . the newest word to add to my vocabulary: "gua gua" which apparently is Spanish for "bow wow." 

Les mando un beso,

Julie