Today, while waiting for a bus to La Paz I met an interesting, 40 year old guy. Whole conversation was in Spanish, but it is easy to convert it to English. Hope it would be a good starter for monday morning, enjoy!
Guy: Are you a student or proffesional?
Me: I am a proffesional.
Guy: Yeah? What is your proffession?
Me: I am computer programmer.
Guy: Oh yeah? It is easy. You nead six months to study that.
Me: No, it took me five years!
Guy: I am a doctor specialized in traumatology. Also (and here he starts to enumerate other things related to medicine so fast that I could not understand).
Me: Oh yeah? And how much did it take you to study that?!
Guy (showing only five fingers using one hand): Ten years.
Me: Ten (me showing five fingers) or five (me showing ten fingers)?
Guy: Ten! (showing ten fingers this time). And where are you from?
Me: Poland.
Guy: Aaa, Lik Wajnsa!
Me: No, Lech Walesa!
Guy: But he is an illiterate.
Me: (Ready to say that he might be little bit under educated but did few nice things for our country and not only) …
Guy: All Poles are illiterates.
Me: What?
Guy: Poles are illiterates.
Me: Yeah? How do you now?
Guy: I read on the internet.
Me (Little bit provocated): Do you have internet in La Paz?
Guy: Yeah, we have all.
Me: Really? There is internet in La Paz?
Guy (Little bit offended): Yes, we have internet. We have also police!
Me: 🙂
After that I started to wonder if I have enough space on my camera to record some movie while asking more questions to the guy…