mejor mujer

This week has been one of learning. We learned to roll our rrr's a little. We know which buses will take us most efficiently to and from work. I think I have figured out the phone systems. A cell phone has eight numbers and must always begin with 09 after I dial the nine numbers to reach the cell phone system. Home phones can be directly dialed. I have learned to talk in different tenses appropriately, and to even joke!!! I can understand (slowly) when people tell me phone numbers by saying eighteenfourhundredtwentythreefoursixtyfour, if they give me one set at a time. Today I made a friend out of the mala mujer lady. I understand the system of stakes and wards and branches and corrected the mistakes on the computer. I even know now how to turn the computers off at the end of the day. They have to be completely turned OFF. I can answer the phone ande discern whom they want to talk to and tell them that the person is on vacation and wont be back till Monday. AND...the chilean people are beginning to look like normal now, not like foreigners. Some even resemble people back in the States. One man looked like Varnell Bench, another reminded me of Danny Karren and another made me think of Beverly Winters! Are we becoming chilenos? If this has happened in six weeks, what will we be like in six months, or 23 for that matter????