I walked home from the colegio this morning and used the following greetings with various people as they passed by:<\/p>\n
buenos dias (good morning)
buen dia (good morning)
buenas (variation on good morning)
hola (hi)
que tal? (how’s it going)
adios (mix between goodbye, farewell, literally -to God)<\/p>\n
I’m perplexed as to how people decide to use, as everyone uses a different one with me. I heard all of these from them and merely replied in kind. <\/p>\n
Everyone greets everyone here. If you come into a room of 30 people, you shake everyone’s hand – and again when you leave. It is courtesy so common that if you don’t do this people wonder why you jilted them. <\/p>\n
It’s good though, lots of smiles each day. Unless someone waves to you while you’re ripping down a hill with huge potholes and speed bumps and chickens on your bike – then it could prove lethal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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