Mi Clase

Wow! what a difference 2 hours makes. I began my Spanish class yesterday and will have a 2 hour class for 10 days. It is a real challenge for me to speak nothing but Spanish for 2 hours. I find it exhausting but fun. I now understand better those students who have trouble with comprehension. By the time I decode each word I hardly remember where the sentence began. But I often amaze myself when I understand or when I actually say a few sentences in a row. My teacher is super and we have so much in common that most of the instruction is really just talking and comparing our lives. Today I took my Nano and showed her pictures from home which launched a lot of discussion. It is hard for me to remember so much vocabulary and I actually found myself awakening during the night and realized that I was studying the vocabulary in Spanish in my dream.

I was quite proud yesterday when I conversed with the taxi driver and managed to get across town and back to visit the CEDEI elementary school (Posts about the school forthcoming). The school was so far across the city that the taxi driver could not find it and much discussion ensued. I insisted that I was not getting out of the taxi until he found the school and after asking two people he finally found it. Glad I had a bit of extra money for his tip.