CR – March 28, 2011 Day 17

When we got to school today, there were a ton of new students starting classes. Both Ginger and I had one new student each added to our classes for a total of three students including us, in each of our classes. Ginger has a new teacher and so far likes her a lot. I have the same teacher that I started with. My new classmate is from Arizona and Ginger’s is from Montreal.

We decided to head home early today so that we wouldn’t feel so rushed to get homework done before dinner. I’m happy that now I can comfortably identify when to use “Por or Para.” In spanish, both words mean “for” but each has different uses in spanish. YIKES!

My verb conjugation is still Cro-Magnon but I’m making steady progress. Today, Ginger introduce me to her new classmate. At one point in the conversation I was thinking in my head to ask her, “How long will you be in Costa Rica.” Instead to my horror what came out in spanish was “How much do you cost?”

….SH@#$T !

Fortunately, she is very nice lady and as a red faced Ginger tried to deftly intercept my linguistic blunder, she said she understood what I was trying to ask. Whew! I didn’t get slapped or thrown out of the school for propositioning another student. Get it…how much do you cost? I guess you had to be there. I rarely spoke for the rest of the day. Just kidding.

The hard part now is figuring out how to tap into my vocabulary database when speaking. As I mentioned in an earlier post, both Ginger and I have a fairly extensive spanish vocabulary and score well on tests. Now it’s the conversational spanish that will be our next challenge.

That’s all for tonight.

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