Learning Spanish

Clearly anybody who knows me knows that I do not speak Spanish and on next Monday I will be teaching a class of 7 to 9 year olds in Spanish. So I have been studying with CD in England before I came out but because of work pressure, I do wish I had done more as I did not complete the CD. The organisation I am with has also included forty hours of Spanish lessons at the Guacamaya school in Copan Ruinas(http://www.guacamaya.com/). It is a lovely school. I am doing twenty hours this week from 8 to 12 in the morning and it will be 10 hours in the afternoon for the following two weeks as I will be at the school in the morning. My teacher (maestra) is Gaby and we have lots of chats about family, we got into sharing medical problems this morning as I was not moving well after the horse riding and she told me that her heart is on the right hand side. Anyway we played a game called Busca (Stop) which reminds me of the games we used to play on camping or on ski holidays. There are categories of words (names of things in the school etc..) and we take in turns to choose a letter and then think of words beginning with that letter. Not surprisingly, I lost. Gaby´s score was 42 so I explained that this was a famous number in England which I think I did quite well with the explanation. Gaby said that 52 was a popular number in Honduras as it signifies the weekend = like 24-7. Anyway I have to go now to do my tarea (homework).


This is Gaby.

Clearly anybody who knows me knows that I do not speak Spanish and on next Monday I will be teaching a class of 7 to 9 year olds in Spanish. So I have been studying with CD in England before I came out but because of work pressure, I do wish I had done more as I did not complete the CD. The organisation I am with has also included forty hours of Spanish lessons at the Guacamaya school in Copan Ruinas(http://www.guacamaya.com/).

It is a lovely school. I am doing twenty hours this week from 8 to 12 in the morning and it will be 10 hours in the afternoon for the following two weeks as I will be at the school in the morning. My teacher (maestra) is Gaby and we have lots of chats about family, we got into sharing medical problems this morning as I was not moving well after the horse riding and she told me that her heart is on the right hand side.

Anyway we played a game called Busca (Stop) which reminds me of the games we used to play on camping or on ski holidays. There are categories of words (names of things in the school etc..) and we take in turns to choose a letter and then think of words beginning with that letter. Not surprisingly, I lost. Gaby´s score was 42 so I explained that this was a famous number in England which I think I did quite well with the explanation. Gaby said that 52 was a popular number in Honduras as it signifies the weekend = like 24-7.

Anyway I have to go now to do my tarea (homework)