Feeling stupid in BA

I felt stupid in many places - but I can't recall such a concentration of "feeling stupid" i one place, ever!

The language... it seems like the people understand my Spanish more or less - the other way around it's a clear "less". It must be the Italian twist in the accent here - which gets me totally confused. For example, in a shop my simple reply "Si" to the lady at the register, caused her to take away the bags with the goods I just bought. Frantically I tried to get them back. And WOW, what a look I got of the woman, while trying! I guess she didn't take me for a bloody turist at first... And how should I have known, that the supermarkeds her offer home delivery!??

Or the story in San Telmo (a bit like Montmartre in Paris without the hills)... where you find tango dancers and musicians in the streets. During a guided tour by la panameña and her friends, we went to eat at a restaurant that offered a free tango show. Everything was just perfect. Listening to the music, seeing the dancers do their thing... But then, after a plate of pasta and a nice Wiener Schnitzel Argentinian style, somebody tapped me on my back. It was the lady dancer, who had just performed. After telling her I had a broken foot, that I was blind on one eye, and didn't have rythm anyway, she dragged med up onto the stage. Here I was and everybody was watching... At that point, I hadn't seen a dancefloor in about 3 month. Now, how stupid do you think I felt!?!! That wasn't really the way I had imagined my first dance with an Argentinian women in BA! But I guess, the setting never is a 100 % perfect...

And there are more stories - like the one a day after at my first practica (Villa Malcom) when a Canadian dancer asked me: "Oh, so I am your first one...." Ha... Haha... Not easy beeing a legal alien in BA...