My on and off Spanish classes with Aura are now over. I`d continue taking more, but even though they`re cheap they get really expensive once you start adding the weeks up.
As for El Subjuntivo… it`s hard. Not really, but it takes a ton of practice to know when to use it and when not to. [...]
So I`m still not too cool for school. I`m back to taking classes again. There`s one verb tense called the subjuntivo that I have yet to learn. It`s the most complicated tense in Spanish, but is necessary to learn if I`m really going to have a decent handle on the language.
Aura, mi maestra, has told [...]
So work proved to be a bit too crazy for the time being. It wasn´t possible to do Spanish classes and to work in Guatemala city at the same time. Tono and I both felt that once my Spanish is better I will be more effective in the office. I also feel like Spanish classes will [...]
So I´m not going to Spanish school anymore. This is not by choice but by necessity. Since I am working for Tono in Guatemala city, I do not get back until 5:30 or so and am usually more or less exhausted from the camioneta experience. I usually just get home, eat dinner, and chat it [...]
So on Wednesday I went on a field trip through the school. It was to a neighboring pueblo named San Mateo. We were visiting a very small elementry school that supported itself by demostrating how to make tortillas and other typical Guatemalan food to tourists.
We met in the park near my house a little before 8:00 [...]
So I have decided to contribute to Carla and Faviola´s college fund.
Since Stella corrects me about 3 times per sentence, she suggested that I need some sort of motivation for catching my mistakes before they happen. She proposed that I put 25 quetzale centivos (about 3 cents US) into some sort of piggy bank every [...]
So I climbed a Volcano yesterday.
During class, a man named Robert came up to me with a proposal. He explained how he and his family were planning on climbing Pacaya today and how he had reserved a shuttle bus and a guide. Robert said that his wife was feeling a bit sick and didn´t feel like going anymore. He wanted [...]
So Spanish school is going well. I have 4 hours a day of one on one Spanish with Clariza. She is really cool, and half of the time, we basically just hang out and chat it up (en espanol).
Yesterday we watched Obama get sworn in (to the sound of motorcycles and tuc tucs - picture and [...]
Otto´s uncle Rodolfo and his friend Christian drove Otto and I to Antigua two nights in a row in order to scope out the different Spanish schools.
I think that looking for spanish schools seemed like a good excuse for Rodolfo and Christian to show us around Antigua. By this I mean eating massive amounts of food, spending [...]