Uruguay is Good!

There you go! I am in Uruguay, I went straight into an apartment arranged for me and my family.  The cab driver who came to pick us up at the airport spoke a little English and told that he and his family were devotees of Sai Baba in India!

I went to work and took the Visa department personnel to the Colombian consulate in Uruguay.

The place where I am in Uruguay is called Montevideo.  The country itself is very small and has a population of 3 million.  Montevideo being the capital city, it is considered densely populated (approx 1 million).

Español

I have started learning Spanish. A professor from an University comes to my apartment to teach me Spanish. Me, my wife and some of my colleagues have started learning it.

The language has lot of similarities with my mother tongue (Tamil). Seems to be interesting.

**CHECK**

I work as a consultant at the Ministry of Public credit in Colombia. It is in front of the President's house and is heavily guarded at night. Some of my colleagues (non-spanish speaking people) left the office very late in the night (probably 1230 in the night) and were waiting outside the office for Taxi.

While they were waiting outside, the security guards asked them a few questions and because my colleagues did not know Spanish, they did not understand what the guards spoke. Probably, my colleagues gave some irrelevant answer and the guards asked these guys whether they can *check* them. Without understanding much these guys said yes. Can you imagine what could have happened?

These guys were made to stand against a wall facing it and the guard frisked them. These guys felt strange as they never expected this and it was a kind of embarrassment for them. Perhaps this could be the least expected for a guy who works in an Information Technology industry (a white collar job!!).

Funny and sad!!