raine_days' Understudy

Hello! This is Pick-up Artist here doing a guest posting. I arrived this afternoon in San Salvador. I was met by the ever popular Chepe who led me through immigrations and customs. I tried to use what little Spanish I can remember. I was able to let Chepe know that I wanted to stop at the bathroom before proceeding to immigration. "Un momento. Los banos." Then I got to cut in line - ha ha! The woman working behind the counter said something to me in English and I answered "si". She then asked me in a kind of snooty tone if I spoke Spanish or not. After immgration Chepe, random airport employee leading us, and I were all waiting for my bag. This was my second moment of communication in espanol. The airport guy wanted the claim ticket so as the bags started rolling out he could match it up to mine. Well, I took this bright yellow duffel bag of mine so I can always easily identify my bags. So when the guy started to look at a black suitcase, I stopped him and motioned to the bags and said "amarillo." Then Chepe said "yellow." Oh, international relations at its best! A funny side note, as the three of us were waiting for the bag, there was an American man standing near us who was listening inon Chepe and airport dude talk in Spanish. The American then asks me if I speak Spanish. Did he think I was being detained or something and that these guys were going to mistreat me??? The highlight of the ride to the embassy was the billboard for "BIMBO." No, it was not an ad for an escort service but rather an ad for bread!! Since getting to the embassy I have just been hanging out with my pal raine_days. :-) I think tonight we will just relax as tomorrow is our big tour!! We have to make miracles happen outside the city limits of San Salvador.