Phew! This week has been kinda nuts. I have decided that learning Spanish is much more difficult than I ever imagined. I am learning a ton, but its amazing how much concentration it takes to understand and respond in a new language all day. My teacher only speaks in Spanish to me. If I don´t understand a word she tells me in English or explains it to me in Spanish. I pretty much just decode the entire lesson and write everything new down in a notebook. So far I have learned/ reviewed about 50 verbs and tons of vocab. Every day I come home from school, eat lunch, and crash for an hour. Then I try to do something fun, and back to studying before and after dinner.
So far for fun I´ve had a Salsa lesson and visited a macadamia nut farm. Pictures are posted on facebook. I tried to share them with the group email but we´ll see if that worked. Ha, even as I write this email I´m writing half Spanish words and having to delete. You thought I spelled poorly before! The salsa lesson was fun but I already knew how to do everything they taught. I pretty much spent the entire time laughing with the instructor at the gringos trying to catch the Latino beat. Most of them failed to do so. They tried to sell me lessons but I prefer to learn from the locals at the bar for free. The farm was beautiful. We got to try some yummy nuts and I even got a free facial with the nut oil! The trip ended in a torrential downpour and we all got soaked. I have since learned to put my things in a plastic bag inside my purse to save them from the rain.
Well gotta run, Mom´s about to call the house. Don´t think the photos were sent to the email group, not sure why not. Here is the facebook link and a few I posted here. The connection was bad so after three attempts I ended up with about 50 photos. Most were repeats. Can someone help mom get a facebook account? Bussy? Miss you all!!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?cropsuccess&id=19220234#!/album.php?aid=2369325&id=19220234&ref=mf
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