Wednesday:
Spanish Level: I graduated from Basic II today but I don’t think I’m really ready to move on to Intermediate. I comprehend the idea of the lessons but I have not had enough time to really practice a lot of the concepts to a point I feel ready to move on. I have two more days this week and starting Monday I get a new book and a new teacher.

When I got home tonight we had a new neighbor, Geraldo. He is here to install the second floor in our house. Wilbert took a week off to work with him. He is a very nice but quiet man. He said it will take about two weeks to install the floor. I didn’t measure but Id estimate the room to be about 60x40 for a total of 2,400sq feet (with an opening for the stairs) so probably more like 1,800sq feet of tongue-in-grove flooring to lay. I’m sure if I asked they’d tell me some measurement in metrics (I have not had time to re-learn the metric system yet). He doesn’t talk too much to me; mostly he and Wilbert talk about the house and the floor. Tonight when I got home they had installed about 3 strips 60 feet long. All day they sanded and painted the wood Wilbert has been storing the last month. It will be fun to see it when it is finished.

I brought Kelly and Pearson, the other two students at school right now, to see where I lived after school. I forgot they were installing the floor. I think Carmen was worried about anyone seeing her house turned upside down but Wilbert was very happy to have two new people as a captive audience. He told them they could only speak Spanish with him. He talked to the two of them for about 30 minutes, asked them all sorts of questions to try out their Spanish. He told them each if they wanted to practice he’d be happy to talk to them any time. He really likes helping the students learn Spanish and he likes to talk a lot. I’m lucky to have a family I get along with so well. If it were not so damn hot here I’d stay my entire 3 months here.