I’ve been in Spanish classes for the past two weeks. It’s been great. As a non-native Spanish speaker, it is important to refresh your Spanish by having a professional correct your mistakes. I tend to pick up bad habits along the way and to go back to the class, every now and then, is excellent for retuning my Latin Linguistic Skills.
What has been equally excellent and most refreshing are the contacts I’ve made with Americans who have been in the school. There have been the usual bunch of the “way-out-there” crowd. There have also been some individuals who have been simply marvelous. They’ve managed to help restore a little faith in me to discover a “New Wave”, so to speak, of potential expats, not Fakepats, who realize the dire importance of learning Spanish as the key that unlocks the door to the culture.
Amazingly, in talking with several of those planning on retiring full-time to Mexico, I’ve found those who have been making the same observations I have been writing about and for which I’ve garnered the hatred of the Gringolandians in San Miguel de Allende and the city of Guanajuato, where my wife and I live.
One example is the clannishness […]

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