I started intensive Spanish school today – 5 hours a day – 5 days a week. Bill said the total hours are equivalent to 7.5 semesters of school.
Bill also walked me to school and took my photo – I felt like I was 5 years old again. He also picked me up for lunch and gave me permission to walk home allllll by myself!
The accent is Spain is difficult to understand – they talk with a lisp. Poco a poco.
We walked 1.2 miles (our feet still hurt) to the grande Carrefour store (similar to a Walmart with food) with the intention of taking a taxi back home with all of our treasures. The taxi stand was empty and we left our new Spanish cell phones home because we were together – who else would we call??
The man at the lottery booth instructed me to go back into the store and use the pay phone to call a taxi.
After several unsuccessful attempts I asked the security guard for help. It’s been about 19 years since I used a pay phone – in Spanish no less. I was happy to find out that the pay phone was broken and not operator error. The security guard kindly called us a taxi.
How was your first day of school?
It was hard to follow quickly – their accent is difficult to understand. However, when I rewrote my notes tonight – I realized I learned a ton.
Kudos to you Paige! And wasn’t it brave of Bill to let you walk home alone! ;o)
He is too cute for his own good. I am one lucky girl!
I think that the lisp is because one of the Spanish Kings lisped and everyone had to so he wouldn’t be thought of as strange, stupid, etc.
HA! That is exactly what Bill said. Well…. the king is dead so they should get over it!!! It certainly would make my life easier.