Tuesday – Friday:
Spanish Level: My teachers name this week was Ana Maria. She is from Argentina originally so her accent is a little different. This week I learned how to say: “Would you”, “could you” and “you should”. I also learned past participle verbs (ending in –ed) like “he walked”, “she visited”, “the book is closed”. Thank heavens it was a short week with only 4 school days, my brain aches with all these verb tenses.

The rest of the week went by quickly. Wednesday after class the students went to visit the other campus of Conversa in Santa Ana. We had a nice lunch there and a conference about verb tenses. I missed the dance lesson that night and the barbecue because I had planed to meet Mauricio and go to his family’s house to watch the “classico” football (soccer) game between the top two Costa Rican national teams, Alajualea and Saprissa. It was a lot of fun and I spent the night with them again. Their mom, Mayela, made all sorts of snacks including these platanos baked with sugar and cheese in the oven… oh my they were GREAT! The neighbors came over too and it was just like being home with Mike, Matt, Andy and Monica and Bobby and anyone else who came by from the neighborhood. Or like being at the Lawson’s, watching a game on TV with all the Auburn fanatics. I spent the night there and Mauricio drove me to school the next day. He helped me with my homework in the car. I had to write sentences saying what I would do if I could. Ironically, the one he gave me was my teachers favorite one, hhahahaaha.

I was so tired from the long weekend, all the riding around and all this new info in school that I didn’t do anything note worthy Thursday and Friday night.