I managed to go and get my haircut today without it turning into a disaster. This is a major accomplishment as it’s a scary thing to do even in a country where you speak the language. I remembered the words for appointment, cut, dry, and curly with a few others linking them together and a few hand gestures thrown in I was good to go. I went to a nice place in Recoletta as opposed to one of the cheaper places and with wash, cut, dry, and straightening iron it ended up costing me US$23 – including the tip.

In the middle of the haircut when the stylist was trying hard to talk me me I realized, for the second time today that I need a lot more conversational Spanish practice. I’m ok in the exercises in the book and can write out conjugations of all sorts of irregular verbs, but then I get out in the world and can’t pull up the necessary words from the alphabet soup that is in my brain. Next step – conversation class.