Spanish Lessons

Spanish Lessons

After doing the usual daily tasks yesterday, I left home to head to the spanish lessons in San Carlos. The lesson was supposed to start at 3 PM, so I left home at 2 PM intending to pay the cable/internet bill on the way. As you never know how long you will have to wait for a bus, I thought I would give myself lots of time. I didn't have to wait in line for too long at the cable company, there were only 3 people ahead of me, as compared to a line up all the way out of the door at the beginning of the month. I just missed a bus to San Carlos and had to wait for another, by this time it was 2:30 PM, thankfully, I didn't have to wait too long for the next one. I arrived at the class with just minutes to spare. There were 8 of us altogether at the class and the teacher (who is not an actual teacher), did not have enough papers for everyone, so sent her boyfriend out to make some more copies. She didn't know how many people would attend as there was no pre-registration. It was somewhat dis-organised; but as it was the first class, I wasn't too upset by this. We went through some words and pronunciation and then she had us write out some sentences and the hour was over. The classes are supposed to be 3 times a week for an hour. I am not sure about all these trips to San Carlos; but figured I would try it and see how it goes. Next class is today and then we have a day off on Wednesday and return on Thursday. The "teacher" is not a "native" spanish speaker, my impression is that she has taken classes herself and because of the cost of other classes in the area she sees an opportunity to make some money by offering her knowledge at a discount. I wonder if she has a working visa? Hmmmm. The handouts we were given had a lot of english and spanish typos on them, which is not great when you are trying to learn new words in a different language. She also made a couple of mistakes that we picked up on, so that doesn't give me too much confidence in her ability; but as I said before, I will try it a few times and see if she gets the bugs worked out. She asked if there were things that we want to say in spanish and don't know how; but that is a difficult question to answer as most of the problems occur when you are in a conversation and it is hard to pull them out of a hat. I think what I need help the most with is sentence structure; if I really got to work at home, I could learn the verb conjugations. It is just too easy to be lazy at home, I thought classes might motivate me a bit more. We will see what happens today. Hmm...I wonder if there is anyone reading from Guaymas, that can speak some english also, that would like to get together just to chat with me?

When I got home Ciro was visiting with Roy and we chatted for awhile, when he was almost ready to leave he remembered that he had been sent up by Irene to ask if I wanted a lesson on how to make "dulce toronja", sweet grapefruit, I am assuming this would be like the candied fruit you see in the stores, not sure. She was making it and thought I might be interested; but I guess when he came up and I wasn't home he and Roy got talking fishing and it slipped his mind. Oh well, maybe another time, it's not like I am going anywhere.