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Week 2 Monday 我的西班牙语 I’ve just arrived in Zaragoza, Spain for an important meeting. It’s 2:30 in the morning, Spain time, and I’m a__1__. Why? It call __2__ when I realized my housekeeper had washed my passport just a few days __3__ I was to leave. I __4__ a large part of the week getting another. On Friday, after little sleep, I rushed to a long meeting that __5__ at 4 pm. My flight to London was at 7 pm and I hadn’t __6__ yet, so I rushed home, packed and got to the airport just in time for the __7__. People here in Spain don’t speak __8__. Or it’s not at least the Spanish that I learned in high school __9__ my Mexican Spanish teacher. I don’t __10__ what they’re saying, and they __11__ don’t understand me. Even getting a taxi to the train station from the Madrid airport was __12__. And the __13__ is in Zaragoza, far from Madrid. I knew I had to buy a __14__ ticket. I was saying Zaragoza, but they couldn’t understand me. And when they __15__ did, they told me that the train ticket was __16__. I went to the information desk to find out what hotel I should stay in, and try to __17__ a train ticket for tomorrow. They didn’t speak English, and my poor American Spanish got me __18__. Then I realized I could rent a __19__ and probably beat the train there. I got a car and finally arrived in Zaragoza at about 1 am after a very long drive. I had the hotel address written down, but the streets here aren’t __20__. I drove around the city for an hour, street by street, until I found the hotel. Tuesday 英语学习话今昔 Cai Jingshu, 14, loves English. She reads English newspaper every week and often tries to talk with foreigners. “The most popular phrase in my class is ‘Whoops!’ Many of us want to study abroad and find out more about English language culture,” said the girl. However, for Cai’s aunt, 45-year-old Bin Changzheng, studying English was a different story. Bin recalled when she first studied English in 1977, with junior textbooks. “We spent nearly half a year