Well it has been far too long since I have blogged. These past few weeks have been absolutely crazy! I don't know how people can survive going here for 4 or more years; I'm barely surviving a semester. But we only have 2 more days of classes before a 4 day break and then finals. We were supposed to have 3 more days but there's a march going on in San Juan tomorrow to protest the new tax reform that the government wants to implement. And I agree with them, it is a pretty crazy high raise to the current tax amount. But I finally "finished" my grammar homework (not sure if it's actually done correctly or not) and all of my other current homework so I actually have some free time... What is this? I feel like I haven't had much time all semester and now I think I can actually start having some free time. The thing I'm worried about are finals though. I have 2 take home finals that I'm not too
worried about but then my in-class ones are making me really worried. This is especially true for my grammar class. I'm sliding by with a 'C' but I'm going to try and pull out a 'B' on my final so that I can feel secure with my grade. Someone had posted this on Facebook and I though it was so true: especially since I consider myself to be a wiccan. I told Deidre that if she hears weird chanting coming from my room in the next week and a half not to worry because I'm only summoning the gods of intellect to help me on my exam. I'm sure she thinks I'm crazy. Oh well. |
But Grammar today was rough. We had a classmate pass away on Saturday and today our professor brought in flowers for him. A lot of us said something for him and then placed a rose on his spot. In honor of him, I put a post on Facebook that I will share with you, but I refuse to put it into English because he refused to have people talk to him inn English in order for him to learn Spanish (he was Polish). So here it is:
"No le conocía pero yo sé que él tocaba muchos corazones. Solamente tenía una clase con él, y de hecho no había hablado con él, pero yo le veía como una inspiración. Si él podría vivir en un otro país con un idioma que él no sabía, aprender el idioma, y sobrevivir Gramática, yo podría hacerlo también. Lucasz, no lo sabías pero tú eras mi inspiración para aprovechar Gramática y continuar aprendiendo español cuando quería abandonarlo. Y sí, yo pensaba sobre dejarlo muchas veces mientras he estado aquí. Fue un día triste en Gramática hoy sin ti. Tú serás extrañar. Muchos abrazos por tus compañeros de Gramática."
"No le conocía pero yo sé que él tocaba muchos corazones. Solamente tenía una clase con él, y de hecho no había hablado con él, pero yo le veía como una inspiración. Si él podría vivir en un otro país con un idioma que él no sabía, aprender el idioma, y sobrevivir Gramática, yo podría hacerlo también. Lucasz, no lo sabías pero tú eras mi inspiración para aprovechar Gramática y continuar aprendiendo español cuando quería abandonarlo. Y sí, yo pensaba sobre dejarlo muchas veces mientras he estado aquí. Fue un día triste en Gramática hoy sin ti. Tú serás extrañar. Muchos abrazos por tus compañeros de Gramática."
But on a more fun note, all of my friends back at Green Bay are all done with finals and everyone's graduating. I'm so jealous of all of you. I'm not done until the 20th. I hope I can survive until then. Everything is done other than exams though and we don't have class tomorrow, so there's that. But I'm going to make a post dedicated to those that are graduating this semester on Saturday when the ceremony is. Also, I kind of learned how to salsa dance last night. We finally met our neighbors for the first time since they moved in 3 weeks ago. We're actually going to a beer pong tournament with them tonight. I feel like our semester would have been a lot different if we had people living next to us all semester, or lived in dorms or with a family or something. I know my Spanish would be a lot better than it is and I probably would have gone to more places. Luckily I still have 3 months before I go home. But I'm going to watch some YouTube videos before we have to go.
XOXO
Ericka
XOXO
Ericka