The Truth About Our Language.......

Today John had to handle a somewhat complicated situation in Spanish. There was a group of us (like 7 of us from language school) and John was unofficially elected to find out the information we needed. When he went to talk to the people, in Spanish of course, they immediately called for a Costa Rican National (Tico) who speaks English to talk to John!!!!! Of course, we were laughing our heads off and joking about how he threw out the word distinguir at them and still wasn't understood. Who knows if it was because they couldn't understand them or because it's just much easier to find an English Speaker. But John persevered and continued to only Speak Spanish and she changed her English to Spanish as well. We got the answers we needed (we hope) and got a good chuckle out of the situation. So, it might seem to you guys in America that we are flying in our Spanish and that we are great Spanish Speakers, but to the Ticos we still have a llllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggg way to go. When they stop calling for an English speaker, we will know we have arrived. Oh for that day to come!!!!!!!