Y'know what is something that I find surprisingly difficult to find in Mexico City?
Corn tortilla chips!
There's convenience stores on every street corner. In America, those shops would be like 20% tortilla chips. That has not been my finding here in Mexico City.
Is that because of American corn subsidies or something? Or are tortilla chips just not a real Mexican thing?
My plan is to be here until it's safe to be trans in America again!
Hopefully people will work hard and overthrow fascism so I can come home soon.
How's your Spanish?
I had four years of Spanish in high school 30 years ago. So,,, yeah, needs some work.
So far, I can communicate with store clerks as long as nothing unexpected happens. I've found a bunch of English/Spanish meetup groups, so I'm planning on going to those to get some practice.
Right now, I've got the official welcome diarrhea, so I'm gonna stick by the toilet until that's better. I haven't made it to the groups yet. (This is why I was looking for corn chips; gentle on the tum)
For Moctezuma's revenge... there's not a lot you can do but let it take its course and wait for your body to adjust.
We went to a queer comedian the other day who spoke English. But they had two warmup acts who were in Spanish. Listening to that was like "blablablabla Gay *audience chuckles* blabablabla Lesbian *audience roars with laughter". But I bet I got at least one or two experience points in Spanish comprehension.
Oh yeah, my other Spanish language-learning goal is to get good enough at Spanish to talk to a politician about why they don't work harder to make sure the water coming out of the pipes is drinkable. Loading water into bottles and putting it on trucks seems like a ridiculously inefficient way to get water to everyone.
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