{"id":454,"date":"2012-07-18T19:08:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2013-08-19T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:22:02","slug":"do-i-really-want-a-rubber-stamp-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/do-i-really-want-a-rubber-stamp-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Really Want a Rubber Stamp? (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most thrilling things about being abroad is that life becomes all mysterious again. Back in the UK I never paid much attention to what I stumbled across on the streets but in South America every step outside became an adventure.<br \/>\nWhen I started to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a> over here I discovered that the local shops were more interesting than I was used to. The only problem is that I didn\u2019t know what half of them did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rubber Stamps?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was both delighted and a bit mystified to find lots of little shops with signs outside saying Sellos de Goma. I had no idea what this was but it sounded kind of groovy. A quick look at my dictionary told me that we were looking at the heady, nay dizzying, world of stamps of rubber.  This in itself wasn\u2019t the exciting part; it was the sheer number of these places which got me scratching my head. Who ever knew that there was such a big demand for these things? Once I finished my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">Spanish lessons<\/a> and started to get bogged down in red tape I realised that every office in town has an array of these things lined up in them to stamp their name onto my vast array of freshly photocopied documents.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shopcursos.com.ar\/serdg.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most thrilling things about being abroad is that life becomes all mysterious again. Back in the UK I never paid much attention to what I stumbled across on the streets but in South America every step outside became an adventure. 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