Back in October, we posted about beginning classes in Spanish at the Official Language School. We are now a bit more than halfway through the school year, and we wanted to update you all on how it's going. It is not great.
It turns out that we really do not have a lot of motivation to do the massive amount of work outside of class that would be required to really improve on our Spanish. We do some of it, but a lot of the assignments are designed to help prepare for the end-of-year exam (writing assignments, practice reading comprehension assignments, vocabulary), and we are just not motivated to do them since we will not be taking it. In addition, the class is Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6-8 pm, which is just a terrible time for us to try to learn anything since we are morning people. Just the process of getting ourselves out the door those two nights a week is often a chore.
So, while class is a good opportunity to practice speaking Spanish with our interesting group of fellow students, and we are deepening our understanding of some aspects of Spanish grammar, the truth is that we are not very good students due to our less than optimal attitude, so we are not getting much out of the class. This is a weird feeling for two Type-A personalities who always did very well in school but, frankly, we don't really care that much.
All that said, we only have 16 more classes between now and April 30 (not that we are counting), and we have trips to Portugal and Germany planned during the upcoming school breaks for winter and Easter. So, we should make it.
Much more to come about our trip to Portugal.
Hasta luego,
Jeff and Shana
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