For all intended purposes, you can call me Chris. I'm currently living in Mexico city, but am originally from Tijuana Mexico. I work night shifts as an IT consultant, and that's about it as far as a job goes. On the plus side, night shifts allow me to engage in one of my favorite pastimes, learning, which I get a lot since my shifts are 14 hours long (Good thing I only work 3 days out of the week) and have open access to the Internet. Language learning caught my attention for a couple of reasons; first, because I noticed I didn't enjoy reading a book, say, by Jules Verne, I didn't enjoy reading it when I did so when translated to Spanish, I did so much more in English though, and then I realized, that I needed to learn French in order to read the author, and not a translator. I know, it might sound like a silly concept at first, but it's worked for me since I started, mostly because there are words in every language which cannot be translated into others, and that helps a lot when trying to convey a message without stretching a sentence. Secondly, a language will not lose value. That's why I'm here. To learn.