Fin de Semana

I sadly said goodbye to my Spanish teacher, Sonia yesterday. I enjoyed the week of classes with her immensely; it was quite nice to have someone just to talk with! The owner of school, Humberto teased us every day because whenever he passed, Sonia and I were chatting, not working in the grammar book. He accused us of talking about clothes and makeup and boys but little did he know that we were solving the problems of the world. We covered health, politics, immigration, narcotraficantes, food, adolescents, and more. At least that's what I think we talked about - I certainly hope that I didn't come across as some whacko Idaho survivalist or something! Sonia said I speak very elegantly....but that is partly because I don't know the idiomas! Once I learn the short cuts, I won't have to use long convoluted phrases to say what I need to say!

Y'know, I think part of the problem in learning Spanish is that I don't know what many of these verb tenses even mean in English. What the heck is a past subjunctive anyway? Or a pluperfect subjunctive? Anyone? Anyone? I thought not - I think I'll be sticking with these more than sufficient tenses: present, past, future, and a little conditional or imperfect thrown in occasionally when I feel like speaking "elegantly"!

Three solid days of rain inspired me to get to the gym for some exercise today. I've been avoiding it because the music they play there is very very very unappealing to me. But at least it's very very loud! I made a great discovery today though. Every Saturday afternoon, they give Salsa lessons in the gym. During the lessons, the music is still very very very loud. But at least it's Salsa. And that's much more tolerable.

I've added links to Kelsey & Larissa's blogs if anyone wants to read the teenage version of our adventure. They are titled, "My Extended Summer Vacation", and "My 6 month Summer " respectively. Good to see they're taking this experience seriously from an educational perspective!