Spanish Lessons Day 1
My dad and I had our first Spanish lesson this morning at the Simon Bolivar school in Cuenca and it was interesting...
First of all, I didn't sleep much or very well last night. Since we came down here, I've been going to bed between 1 and 3 in the morning and waking up between 10 and noon. Well, the lesson starts at 8 am, so I had to get up at 6:45. If you want to know how the day started for me, let me just say this: one of my first coherent thoughts this morning was 'whose bright idea was this' and it pretty much went downhill from there.
The lesson was ridiculous and I'm pretty sure we covered what would've amounted to at least a week's worth of lessons in a college Spanish class. We got text books and notebooks to go with the lesson. We only went through about a 3 or 4 pages of the book, but it was so much information. We learned over 125 vocab words and used some of them in sentences and we had mini tests and things throughout the class. We also have homework for tomorrow and a test when we first get in. Needless to say, both me and my dad have mush for brains at the moment and probably will for a little while longer.
The test will just be to be able to go through this one dialog set we went over today fairly smoothly, which makes sense, but the homework is ridiculous. Our teacher wants us to be able to say this set of lines that he wrote on the board really fast. For me, this is a problem because I have a hard enough time reading things out loud (my brain tends to either jump around or get ahead of itself), it is in Spanish and I have no idea what it means, and its a series of three tongue twisters (or at least that's what it seems like to me and my dad):
Pablito clavo un clavito
Cuantos clavitos clavo pablito?
Tres tristes tigres comen un plato de trigo en un trigal.
Una rosa roja romplio un rosado rosal con un ruidoso ruido,
pobre rosa que rota esta, tan grande y triste.
No try to say that as fast as you can and then speed that up about 3 times and that's what he's expecting us to be able to do tomorrow...
We're only signed up for lessons for this week at the moment. My dad is definitely going to continue since he is planning on moving to a South America when everything on his side of the family gets sorted out in the US. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue with it though. I want to wait a few more days before I decide, but I'm thinking that this is the best way for me to learn it. There was so much stuff crammed into my head this morning that I don't actually remember much of what we just learned, even though the class only ended 2 hours ago. We'll see as it goes, but I at least definitely have 4 more days of lessons (which is 16 hours).
In other news, I'm kind of upset because we were planning on going to the Inca Lounge (place where we got the amazing tacos a few days ago) after our lesson today, but it was closed. I'll have to make my dad look up the hours again and hopefully it will be open tomorrow.
First of all, I didn't sleep much or very well last night. Since we came down here, I've been going to bed between 1 and 3 in the morning and waking up between 10 and noon. Well, the lesson starts at 8 am, so I had to get up at 6:45. If you want to know how the day started for me, let me just say this: one of my first coherent thoughts this morning was 'whose bright idea was this' and it pretty much went downhill from there.
The lesson was ridiculous and I'm pretty sure we covered what would've amounted to at least a week's worth of lessons in a college Spanish class. We got text books and notebooks to go with the lesson. We only went through about a 3 or 4 pages of the book, but it was so much information. We learned over 125 vocab words and used some of them in sentences and we had mini tests and things throughout the class. We also have homework for tomorrow and a test when we first get in. Needless to say, both me and my dad have mush for brains at the moment and probably will for a little while longer.
The test will just be to be able to go through this one dialog set we went over today fairly smoothly, which makes sense, but the homework is ridiculous. Our teacher wants us to be able to say this set of lines that he wrote on the board really fast. For me, this is a problem because I have a hard enough time reading things out loud (my brain tends to either jump around or get ahead of itself), it is in Spanish and I have no idea what it means, and its a series of three tongue twisters (or at least that's what it seems like to me and my dad):
Pablito clavo un clavito
Cuantos clavitos clavo pablito?
Tres tristes tigres comen un plato de trigo en un trigal.
Una rosa roja romplio un rosado rosal con un ruidoso ruido,
pobre rosa que rota esta, tan grande y triste.
No try to say that as fast as you can and then speed that up about 3 times and that's what he's expecting us to be able to do tomorrow...
We're only signed up for lessons for this week at the moment. My dad is definitely going to continue since he is planning on moving to a South America when everything on his side of the family gets sorted out in the US. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue with it though. I want to wait a few more days before I decide, but I'm thinking that this is the best way for me to learn it. There was so much stuff crammed into my head this morning that I don't actually remember much of what we just learned, even though the class only ended 2 hours ago. We'll see as it goes, but I at least definitely have 4 more days of lessons (which is 16 hours).
In other news, I'm kind of upset because we were planning on going to the Inca Lounge (place where we got the amazing tacos a few days ago) after our lesson today, but it was closed. I'll have to make my dad look up the hours again and hopefully it will be open tomorrow.