Boys and girls... i am days away from vacation... days away from sun... sand... a language that we'll for no better words than... i don't speak it nor do I understand... i can't figure out the money... the menu... the... you name it... i don't get it... and frankly... to a degree... i am ashamed... you see... i never learned a second language... not required... nor from interest... and this is a shame... this is a by product of where we have come as a society... and yet... on this day... i am again ashamed that... while we as a society... as a county expect those who enter our world be able to be understood... were i to travel much farther away... i should be able to at least understand even the smallest amount of language to say please and/or thank you... and kids... I'm only going to Mexico... were i to be journeying off to Germany... China... am I being unrealistic... my verbs and nouns are nonexistent in the language of many others... yet society says that those...