[mikel]

Spending time in Mexico, while exhilarating, can take a lot of us outside of our “comfort zone” for several reasons; exposure to a different culture, lifestyle, crime, poverty and other aspects of life in Mexico but it’s a package deal. Like you, we are trying to improve our Spanish and at this age, learning something new is much harder than it was 40 years ago. I look at it this way, I am going to force myself to endure the uncomfortable and even difficult moments to learn Spanish, knowing that I have a much bigger “payoff” coming when I can have a fluid conversation with anyone I meet in Mexico. That is worth more than whatever it costs me.