Costa T+2 Monday
The first day of school and my adopted madra takes her nino to school. Sorry, no pictures of breakfast today. It consisted of a scrambled egg, rice & beans, bananas, pinapple, papiya, and some other fruit with a small cup of orange juice. She made some coffee, so I had a taste. It was similar to the instant coffee in taste.
Class was brutal. My head is overflowing with Espanol. It is just me and a woman from south Florida in the class. We’re both struggling to understand since everything is spoken in Spanish – everything. That makes it hard to understrand when you don’t have any basis to begin. Present participles – huh? Imaging trying to explain THAT when the students don’t speak the language at all.
Ok, so school is out and I don’t have any formal homework – at least I don’t think I do. Sometimes it is hard to tell whether I really understand the statement/question or assignment.
At one point, my classmate walked out in frustation. She returned 5 minutes later. I think she was concerned that I picked up a new concept quickly. It wasn’t fair to her. My Spanish tapes covered it AND I understood it. I’d read where the first 3 days were the worst.
For me, the frustrating part is that I often answer in German in my head. I expect that reflex will be turned off in the next day or so. My German isn’t that good, but somehow it is still better than my Spanish.
I attempted to upload some photos, but the school connection is shared with 30 other students. Quite the bandwidth hog. After a few uploaded, the connection was stalled. I’ll try to find an easier way to upload.
Time for lunch and I need to figure out which activities I want to do most afternoons. The Heredia visit for today was canceled for some reason. A Soda (diner), then to the grocery store to get some more toothpaste. I didn’t refill from the last trip.
BTW, I’m loving this Nokia N800.
