Thursday, January 19, 2012

Spanish?

¡Sí! Yo necesito escribir en español cada día. Mis errores de gramática necesitan ser corregidos, y no es posible si no escribo en español. Tengo muchos problemas con las preposiciones. No sé cuando yo debo usar “a,” “de,” o “en.” En ingles, sé cuando es necesario usar estas palabras, pero en español es un cuento muy diferente. Mi profesar me ayuda mucho. Explica muy bien.
^^^Sorry for that, needed to vent in Spanish. I don't even know if I have correct grammar, but it's worth the shot.

Anyway, I just need to get used to writing in Spanish. I mean, I have done it for years, but for some reason my grammar is always incorrect (its pretty much the same in English). As I said above, the Spanish prepositions kill me. I want to use "a" when its "en" and vice versa.

Today at lunch I learned there are number of ways to eat/cut a kiwi. I was peeling a kiwi they way I do at home, but apparently it was not correct. In Spain there is one way and in France another, but apparently my way was the worst. It was one of those moments where I was like let me do it my way.

Today was my first day at my internship. I'm interning at Grupo Compostela, an university organization. I suggest looking it up, it's a cool organization. I work in an office at one of the old university buildings in La Zona Vieja. It's awesome, as in the building. The work is just ok, but things will start to pick up once I start to understand the language more. I work with two other women and they are very friendly. They also correct my grammar, which is good because I need to be corrected. I was able to have a good conversation with them about education, even though it takes me forever to put my thoughts into words. I have a hard enough time speaking what I want to say in English, that in Spanish it is like 100 time harder. The organization is also international, so they often have to translate things from Spanish to English, so the two women would ask me a lot of questions regarding how to say a word or phrase in English. It makes me feel smart, haha, because when I speak Spanish I feel like know nothing.

I really like it here and I cannot believe that I have been here for almost two weeks now. Crazy!

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