Dinner Musings

So, I was at dinner a couple hours ago (taco bar++, 'specially with fresh strawberry rhubarb pie for dessert!), and I realized halfway through my first taco that the table behind me was full of a large group of Asian girls (a quick estimate yielded around ten) chattering away. However, my fogged mind wasn't clicking very fast, so it took me a few more bites to realize that they all were chattering in very fast, very fluent Spanish, all with very good accents. This struck me as odd, and I'm afraid I stared a bit too long, and they all dropped into their native language when one noticed me looking and listening. I suppose it was odd because most of our international students speak their native language and English, and nothing else--English is their foreign language for the most part. I finished my tacos and pie (mmm, good pie) and went back upstairs for a while before the guy in charge of bike storage came back to his office, and mentioned this incident on the LUG IRC channel. Byan asked if I was sure it was Spanish and not Mandarin...I won't go into the IB Spanish program in detail, but suffice it to say that, after going through it, I can usually detect the subtle differences between Mandarin and Spanish...

/me wants more of that pie...