Que Tal? This is an expressions that means, "what´s up" or "how´s it going?"
I am finally feeling better but being sick for so long left me feeling a little weak so sadly Nathan and I were not able to do our trek to the volcano. We are now in Junin de los Andes, Argentina where Nathan is doing a lot of fly fishing.
I am finally feeling better but being sick for so long left me feeling a little weak so sadly Nathan and I were not able to do our trek to the volcano. We are now in Junin de los Andes, Argentina where Nathan is doing a lot of fly fishing.
As we walk around different towns here in South America we see a lot of stores selling various things. Usually a tienda, or shop, will sell only one or a few kinds of things. This is unlike many stores in the United States which sell almost everything you might need in one place, like WalMart or KMart. But here larger stores like those are less common.
There is something else different about the tiendas here as well. In the middle of the day they will usually close for siesta, or afternoon break. In fact, everyone takes a siesta from around 1 or 2 in the afternoon until 5 or 6 in the evening. Schools, work places, stores, just about everything shuts down for a few hours while people go home to have a large meal with their families and maybe take a nap. Afterwards they return to school or work until about 8 in the evening. This means that dinner is very late, usually not until 10 o´clock at night!
As I said earlier, the small tiendas usually sell just a few kinds of things. Their names usually include the word for the goods they sell and end in the suffix -eria. For example, the word for bread is pan, and a store that sells bread is a panaderia.
Do you think you can figure out what these stores sell in the pictures below? I´ll get you started by giving you the spanish root words for the goods being sold, then you try to find which stores sell these things. There are some good hints in the pictures themselves. Below the pictures are the answers--but don´t peek until you´ve tried!
libro = book
joyas = jewelry
sombrero = hat
reloj = watch
zapatos = shoes
pelo = hair
flor = flower
lavar = to wash
ANSWERS
peluqueria: a hair parlor (not a store that sells pelo, or hair, but one that cuts hair!)
lavanderia: a laundromat, a place for lavar, or washing, clothes libreria: sells libros, or books
floreria: sells flores, or flowers
joyeria and relojeria: sells joyas, or jewelry, and relojes, or watches
zapateria: sells zapatos, or shoes
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