Yet another

Well well... yet another lesson or two learned about Mexico today.

Today was the day we found out if our cortinas were sewn correctly.... or not.... And... drum roll please.... eeeew... boooo.... they were wrong. Too confusing to get into details but I must say this is the first of many many lessons we will learn along the way here. They are still at the tela store being extended 10cm and 16 small curtains sew into 8 bigger ones. sigh.... I was so confidant we had it right. Lesson learned, 40 mins is not long enough to explain our curtains... we should have spend ANOTHER 40 minutes. I'm a little disappointed because we did all we could to get it right. We drew OBVIOUS pictures!! Math and pictionary are not language specific.... They should have been able to get it.

Anyway, I fully blame ourselves as we are the ones invading their country with our English ways. Hahaha. Really tho.... its not their fault we can't speak the dominant language here. I'm sure if we would have gone in there speaking spanish we would have come out with what we asked for.

Lesson #2. Today was also the day we pickup our bank cards for our new account. We needed this account so we could deposit international cheques from our brides. Yup yup, no problem... It takes 10 days and cost 15 bucks... but at least we'd get the job done. Got our cards then found out since last Thursday they are no longer able to deposit international cheques.... sigh.....

BUT!!! Funny story, we walked up to the counter, asked for our cards for our new accounts, gave up our passports, contract, etc.... Then after about 5 mins of communitcating... the teller askes me "do you speak spanish"??!?! Hhhahaa.... it took her that long to figure out I don't know Spanish! I guess I was doing a good job with my short list of words. I was impressed!

On a brighter note, we did manange to get an oil change today (cambiar de aceite). Lotita was well overdue for her check up.

So, broke out the Spanish book yet again when I got home. Estudio mucho a mi espanol por que no quiero un otro mal grande. Hahahah... that doesn't make complete sense but... I'm studying my spanish alot because I don't want another big mistake.