YOU ES HEEPEE FROM CALIFORNIA....SI?

Many times in class we just talk and share our lives. It's another way of learning and practicing Spanish. I'm usually talking about volunteering, music festivals, rock n roll and the 'green' world of California. Most the kids from Amsterdam are very inquisitive about the 'greenery' in California as I am about the 'green' in Amsterdam. It's amazing the open conversations we can have in class. I found out that same sex marriage in Spain has been legal since 2005. Just amazing....how can a world so full of  "Catolics" do it but most of the U.S. can't? What a strange world we live in and on my friends.

I am down to only two days of classes left. I have learned so much grammar it's truly amazing. But don't expect me to be speaking Spanish with great ease when I return home. I have much much more to learn and many years of practice. I will continue at City College and am also trying to find a discussion/conversation group to practice with. I am also fortunate to have many Spanish speaking friends that have offered to help me. How wonderful is that? I'd say by next summer I should be speaking pretty damn good...bad grammar still, but pretty damn good.  They say it takes years to truly learn Spanish grammar and speak fluently. I know now they speak the truth.

I will miss the people I have met here both in and out of school. Classes are tough but I do love the interaction and the learning. But it's time for this school girl to see her man and get her party on for a few weeks then get home to begin the process of preparing for more adventures.  Maybe this path I've taken will lead me to South America where I can teach English??? Hmmm? I am definitely going to look into that possiblity when I return.

In class we had to write about our goals and dreams in Spanish...and I wrote all of the above. My life in California, my continued education in the Spanish language, my dream of working for a non-profit that helps the homeless, my dream of having a 'green' bakery and my dream of someday being an English teacher in Peru, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay etc. etc etc?? My little part of this world is definitely a blank canvas right now and I am a first time painter.....what shall I paint?

After I read my little life out loud this is what the Profesora said "You es heepee from California, si?"

Paz y Amor