¡Hola! ¿Cómo está ustedes?

YES! I am proud to announce that V & I are “estudiantes de español”. We’ve been trying to learn Spanish for a while now, mainly because it makes 'comunicacion' a lot easier with a lot of people around this area. Almost all the people who cook and serve food in both our office cafeterias are from Latin America. Agreed most of them speak and understand decent enough English, but there are some folks who… let’s say struggle with the language. Sometimes the whole conversation would just be vigorous head nods and lots of Yes and No.

Things started to change after our trip to Spain; we picked up some basic sentences from our handbook. Even with his broken Spanish V manages to get preferential treatment at his canteen (translation: more food). See, there’s a benefit right there. As for me, I wanted to learn Spanish for the love of learning a new language * cough *.

So we tried borrowing books from the library, checked some online resources, and even considered buying the famous Rosetta Stone – Nothing worked! Then one day we got a booklet from our county about their Adult Education Program. They had a pretty impressive (and some times eyebrow raising) line up of classes: Various ethnic cuisines * cool *, lessons in finance * ugh *, parenting * ignore *, pet training * ignore *, applying make up * laugh out loud *, international languages * YESSSSSSS *

Need I say more?

Our classes are on Wednesdays. It started mid-Jan and goes on till April. Honestly, after four weeks, our over all progress has been pretty slow, but it’s definitely better than not knowing anything. We are certainly enjoying the classes, our teacher is an elderly gentleman and he is really a lot of fun! These days we look forward to Wednesday evenings! And for me personally it comes with added benefits such as bunking gym and not having to think of what’s for dinner * smiles happily *