Spring Break, sort of…
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
After four weeks of four hours of Spanish class a day, we decided to take a break from the classroom. Both of our heads hurt a bit after two weeks but then got better with a couple of mojitos. My (Stacey) knowledge of French really does come in handy learning Spanish, but also gets in the way when I try to speak. I tend to speak Franspagnol. I now know enough to know when I am suposed to use things like the subjunctive, but am not good enough to actually use it on the fly when talking. I blame some of that also on my poor command of the English language. I can hardly recognize verb tenses in English so although I try to translate in my head, I often don’t know the tense that I am thinking in English. Unfortunately for us, it also seems that most of what we need to say involves an irregular verb. We have decided that now we need to practice more in day to day life. We are planning on going back to the classroom again at some point while we are here.
To celebrate the end of classes and our one month anniversary here, we went to the same Laguna de Apoyo that we talked about in a previous blog entry. This time, we stayed at the water’s edge at the hostel, Monkey Hut. There are a [read on]
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