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Beer is not cerveza, work is not trabajo

Melissa Thetford
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"Chela" is apparently the appropriate word to use when ordering beer in Peru, if you want to avoid being immediately labeled as a tourist (I come from a rare bloodline that allows me to blend into about 25 different southern hemisphere countries without standing out), and you never go to work, you go to your "chamba." Cool and confident is not "fresco y confidente," it's all "chevre." All those wasted vocabulary words, replaced by their shorter "ch" cousins!

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