{"id":456,"date":"2012-07-25T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2013-08-19T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:21:53","slug":"do-i-really-want-a-rubber-stamp-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/do-i-really-want-a-rubber-stamp-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Really Want a Rubber Stamp? (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Sore Head?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why are there so many farmacias in South America? More to the point, why can\u2019t I find one open when I have a headache? At first listening to new words all day on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">Spanish classes<\/a> I often ended up feeling as though I had gone a few rounds getting pummelled by Roberto Duran\u2019s manos de piedra. I would still wander around the streets, soaking up the sights and sounds of a foreign culture but always with a slight pounding in my head. All of those farmacia signs which I had seen earlier in the day seemed to miraculously have disappeared though. It seems as though a lot of people go straight to the chemist without seeing a doctor first, which is why there are so many of them apparently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trophy Shops<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in a reasonable sized town in the UK. When I was a kid who had never even heard of empanadas or dulce de leche the population was about 80,000. How many trophy making \/ engraving shops were there? 1, I think. I now live in a South American city of roughly the same size and I am hopelessly addicted to empanadas and dulce de leche. How many trophy shops are there here? Loads. 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