No Comprendo!

On Monday I woke up for my first class, I walked with Delaine and Mary and we luckily didn’t get lost! :) Class was pretty good, but I feel like I am just relearning easy information and I just need to practice understanding and talking. I have a hard time putting my English thoughts into Spanish thoughts and don’t even get me started on my loser American accent. I have been quite discouraged lately about my Spanish I feel like I am never going to learn it and I HATE not being able to fully express myself, especially to my host family.

Anyways, after class a group of us headed to a little paper store to get some notebooks and then to Corte Ingles, which is like a Macy’s and Wal-Mart combined and on speed. It was crazy in there. I walked home alone that time and got a little lost but quickly found my way and felt pretty proud! At least if my Spanish isn’t improving my sense of direction is! When I got home I had lunch awaiting me; fried potatoes with a marinara-like sauce and pork, and again, bread. I took another siesta and when I awoke I met some of my senora’s friends. They were really nice, but I couldn’t understand them, Spanish women talk faster than you can imagine! Later their son came over with his wife and two kids; a young girl about 7 and a little boy not even 3 months old…SO CUTE! They stayed for dinner and the little girl was being so cute. She tried talking to me a lot but I hardly knew what she was saying, so I just smiled and nodded; she talks faster than Spanish women. Haha. My senora and her daughter-in-law continued to remind her to speak slower to me and she was so cute when she was trying to. Later she was reading a Spanish book to me, and it was obvious she is learning to read. I could read the Spanish with ease, but at least she can speak and understand it! I feel like I am at the level of a 2 year old. They stayed for dinner and I felt like the mute American, but I tried to understand what they were talking about and spoke minimally because I feel like I sound like an idiot when I do speak. Dinner was an egg and potato omelet, chicken, and fruit for dessert. Fruit is always for dessert, and I LOVE it! The fruit here is so delicious, and when that’s your only option for dessert it makes it amazing. Haha That night I chatted with my brother and mama, I was glad I got to but it did make me miss home, a lot! At least Jonathon and I got talk about our travel plans for when he gets here! WOO I CAN’T WAIT! Adios!