1/2 of Our First Trimester Completed!

From Brian: Mary and I just received our 1/2 trimester evaluations (kind of like "parent-teacher conferences" without the parent) and we are both doing well in all of our classes. Gracias a Dios! Learning a language is definately a struggle. We got back from our wonderful paseo this past weekend only to begin direct and inderect objects in Gramatica class this morning. I told my teacher that I was just trying to figure out what we learned last week and now we're on to one of the most difficult concepts in spanish! C'est la vie... oh wait, that's french! Es la Vida! Vida loca maybe! I actually found a great tool online with excercises to help with spanish on Colby College's website! Right there in Maine! I used it this afternoon to try and get a better grip on what we're learning this week. Thank you Colby! It really helped. In fonetica we are on to learning consenant sounds and how to form them with our mouths correctly. We had to make P sounds without moving a thin strip of paper held directly in front of our mouths. In english we puff air with our P's. In spanish they do not...quite a challenge! In lenguaje (conversation) we are studying verduras y frutas... tomorrow we actually are making a fruit salad with some of what we have learned! A nice tasting diversion.

Please pray that classes this week don't get the best of us. It is so much information for our minds to contain. I suppose it will keep us on our toes!