nearly at the finish line...

May 23, 2008

Oaxaca, Mexico

Pictures:  Hector and Veronica, our spanish teachers-evidence of Spanish class for Kalin's school, and the view from the rooftop classroom at our school.

Good:  Three more days until we mail the school work to Berkeley.

Bad:  Three more days until we mail the school work to Berkeley.

Surprising:  Only three more days until we mail the school work back to Berkeley.

Okay, not really surprising!  We have given ourselves a deadline of May 26th.  That way the teachers will have the work by June 1st.  Kalin has been working for hours every afternoon to get her stuff finished.  And that is after a morning full of Spanish classes. We are all a bit frazzled- with tensions running higher than ever before.

We have decided to move to a new apartment on June 1st.  Our niece/cousin is coming for the last three weeks of our time here.  We decided that a three bedroom apartment (rather than a studio with a loft) for $200 less a month was a wise decision for family harmony.  It is a more residential area, but we can still walk to the Zocalo, stores and restaurants.

And how is Spanish going?  Well, I am humbled.  Really I find it amazing that any of us speaks at all.  It sure demonstrates how amazing it is that humans developed language.  We like our school a lot.  One of the teachers in particular does a great job of balancing all of our temperaments, skills, and levels.  With two weeks down and four to go, I find it hard to believe we will be speaking much Spanish by the time we leave.  But we did learn a joke today-that I am not going to post.   If you speak Spanish, ask me to tell it to you when we get home.  Then I can practice at least a little bit of Español (did you know they capitalize that now!?).