Well, I'm out on another audit and this time they sent me to Mexico!! It's kinda like Spring Break 2004 and 2006...except not at all. For one, I'm about 2 hours south east of Mexico City and am surrounded by land and mountains. Second, instead of spending my days baking in the sun enjoying all inclusive beverages poolside, I'm in a conference room working. And instead of prancing around in a swimsuit, I'm stuck in workclothes and I'm actually freezing in the conference room so the whole outfit is complimented by my Northface fleece.
But there are definately some perks.
For one...it's about 60 degrees warmer here then it is in Midland and there isn't even any humidity! There isn't a cloud in the sky and i'm definately geting my moneys worth from my sunglasses. Two, our hotel is super cute and if my room had balcony doors that opened, i could walk right out onto the pool deck and hopefully I'll be spending some time there Saturday and Sunday. Also, we're in downtown Tlaxcala so we have tons of cute restaurants we can walk to. Last night when were were walking around they had all these booths of jewelry and stuff that we walked around to look at. While the lady here with me is super into all that stuff, I prefer to look. They do offer all that hair braiding stuff that they offered on the beaches of Alcapulco so maybe i'll come back to the U.S. with a sweet new hairstyle.
I do have to say that I was relieved to find when I arrived, 2 sealed bottles of water in my room. That was the one thing lacking for most of the trip to Germany.
There is currently talk about 2 of us going to Mexico City next weekend just to explore a bit more. One of the auditors wants to go to a town where there is supposedly good pottery. Now, call me crazy but I could care less about the pottery and would rather go to the big city!! Plus I heard the accomodations there are amazing and I want to see what it's all about!
Of course, my lack of Spanish isn't really helping me at all while I'm here. I've actually already received an e-mail back from one of my interviewees that said "I don't speak English." Sweet. And more then once I've had people just look at me and assume I speak Spanish. Even my customs guy refused to believe I didn't know what he was saying! Also, apprently having an L at the end of your name is a very difficult thing to pronounce here so I'm enjoying all the creativity with the pronunciation of my name. I also had a little deja vu when the guy who picked us up in the airport were waiting for the other lady to withdraw some money. He looked at me and said "Do you speak Spanish?" which is a key phrase that I memorized so that I could respond "No." He then replied "I don't speak English" and we went back to standing in silence.
Even though Farley and I are not in the same area, I feel some bonding going on between me and her. It's about 7900 feet above sea level here and I was a little short of breath during my workout this morning. But I figure, if her training in Arizona will get her more red blood cells that will get her Eugene then far be it for me to deny the benefits. Maybe this will be the first step in my quest to become the next American Gladiator.
I miss you all and if anyone wants to come play, they gave me two beds (with extremely hard mattresses) so if anyone wants to bask in the "luxury", come visit. It wouldn't be the worst thing to hang out by the pool while I worked all day! Otherwise, just look forward to more e-mails!
No comments:
Post a Comment