My first two weeks of intensive Spanish lessons are complete. Next week I will only go two days a week for three hours each day. It had gotten to the point that I could not take in any more information. By the time I got finished with 5 hours of class and home, I did not at all feel like studying nor could I. And by the end of the week my brain was totally fried. Now that I know some basic grammar, phrases and a little vocabulary, going every other day for a shorter period of time, I am hoping to be able to concentrate my studying on the multitude of voacabulary that I was given these two weeks and just could not absorb. I'll see how this idea works. My classes will still be taught in Spanish. Immersion seems to be a great way to learn. I am trying my hardest not to convert the Spanish to English. I can understand a whole lot more than I can speak. I am keeping my fingers crossed.



Mark has been in Guadalajara (sp) the past couple of days. It has been so quiet around here. He comes home tonight. We have a three day weekend this weekend. So many holidays!! I wish I had known this one was coming and I would have booked us to go somewhere like maybe the beach. I am not quite sure what we will be doing. I do know that Mark finally has the legal authorization to enter into a contract so.... I will finally get my car!! I had to chose a car from the companies who use Makino machines. As you know, I was a bit town between the Honda Fit, Civic, and Nissan Sentra. After having been driving on the streets for a little bit now, I think I want the Fit. Some of the streets are sooooooo naarrow and the parking spaces are difficult to navigate at times. If Mark feels the Fit has the accelleration I need then that will be my little car. I think it will be a 2011 model, and I do not know at all whaat options are available. It will most likely be siver as my choice are red, silver, black, white and possibly crayon blue. Color choices are limited here in all makes of cars. I will have a bit more freedom and grocery shopping will be so much easier.

With Mark going out of town, I had to learn how to drive into the Centro (center of the city) to get to my lessons. I was scared out of my wits to learn. The streets are winding and are not marked well or even marked incorrectly. You learn to navigate soley by your surroundings ( buildings, stores, monuments). The biggest problem I have is losing my bearings. Well, that and I have a huge fear of getting lost here. Mark had great patience riding in the passenger seat while I drove to and from school for a couple of hours. I probably did the difficult part of the drive 6 or 7 times. After I learned how to get from home to school and home again, I then had to learn how to gt to school from Mark's work as I had to drop him off at work before school so I could have the car while he was out of town. I did it and only got misplaced once. Luckily i knew where I was, I jsut did not kow how to gt to where i wanted to be. A quick phone call to Mark and her navigated me back on track. Teamwork. It is the only way to survive!!
Adios mi Amigos!