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MONTEVIDEO — If I had a peso for every time an uruguayo told me that “Uruguay is a small country” I probably could have ridden the bus for free during my entire semester in Montevideo.
Upon opening my mouth to speak my classroom-learned Spanish — if my appearance didn’t already give me away — my exchanges with uruguayos quickly would shift from whether I wanted anything else with my cafe con leche to what on earth I was doing in Montevideo.
Where are you from? What are you doing here? Studying what? In which university?
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