Piñata Fiesta

Three days and 23 hours of Spanish class later. . . all is well. I worked through a quick seven hours of class on Monday and took it easy at night in the breeze filled “loft” space en nuestra casa. 

Edwin

Katy (one of the owners)

Mildia

Tuesday was a full eight hours of class, but this week I have two new teachers. Mildia in the manana y Edwin in la tarde. It is good to have different voices to practise listening to. It is crazy how different every person speaks when you don’t know the language. In the evening I went to a movie for 20 Limpiras, (translation $1.05 Canadian.)  I saw “Machine Gun Preacher” which is a great movie. Look it up and watch it if you haven’t seen it. It is a re-energizing movie. . . a good reminder to myself to never become passive or complacent. There is much to do in this world.

Yesterday, after a long day of class, I got to experience my first Spanish birthday. Complete with a Spiderman Pinata (how did they know he is my favourite?!). The extended family was all there as well as a couple bonus gringo travelers who are staying at the house. It was a BBQ fiesta, followed by hopeless swings at a moving piñata blindfolded. Somehow I ended up playing an hour of pelota with a couple of the kids (Eduardo y Luis). That involved some serious sweat.

Pelota

Spiderman

I have two more days of 8 hour classes. My goal is to complete about 100 hours. I think I am heading to an organic cooperative coffee farm tomorrow.

Hasta pronto todo!