Anyone speak spanish?

So it´s been a long day already and it´s far from over. I´m in the Mexico City airport, have been for about 5 hours and will be for another 3 or so. I managed to find a restaurant to watch the soccer game, which managed to kill a few hours, but now I´m just exhausted, want to go bed, but won´t be getting to my hostel for another 6 hours... at least.

Some things I´ve learned or been reminded of in my short stay in mexico.

1) Even though we´re in an airport, very few people speak any appreciable amount of english. And they all speak spanish extremely quickly! Thank god I bought a phrase book, and I can see my spanish getting better exponentially in the next few weeks if this keeps up. It´s a little daunting right now though... especially since I´m having trouble thinking straight in english at the moment

2) People who work in bathrooms make me uncomfortable. I don´t need someone to rip paper towel for me... and them being there just makes me feel bad because I don´t have any pesos or any kind of small change even if I did want to tip them (which of course they are expecting)

3) When in Rome... I should NOT have tried to order a club sandwich in mexico... it seemed like a good idea at the time because I recognized it and didn´t have to worry about deciphering the spanish menu... little did I know it would be nothing like what i´m used to and not very good at all. Oh well, live and learn... at least the fries and corona were good. And I got to watch the soccer game :-) Debating whether to cheer for Germany or Spain in the final.

4) 8 hours is a LONG time

5) Foreign countries have their own currency... I know, how stupid could you be, right? But I just didn´t think about it and had american cash on me, which was fine. But I definitely took a double take when my bill came and it was $240! Since then I´ve learned that the peso is about 1:10 so really my bill was under $25... a little more reasonable :-)

6) It´s been exactly 3 years since I left for Europe (well not quite exactly... it was June 25th... but close enough right?)... learned that when I got my passport stamped. Fun! Where will I be headed 3 years from now?

Anyways, that´s all I can think of right now. Sorry nothing interesting to share with you. Hope everyone is having fun!

Kaila

P.S. Bad news, I was hoping to be able to post pictures as I go, but the one thing I managed to pack in my new apartment (that I´ve realized so far) is the cord to plug my camera in. I´ll get some up if I happen to find a computer with driver for my memory card, but otherwise we´re out of luck... sorry!