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Hey everyone! Wow, they days are just flying over here. I can’t believe we’ve already been here for over a month. And I can’t believe that we barely have two left… Today we had our first week of Spanish class after our little “vacation”. We had last week off from school and it actually feels pretty good to be back. We’ve been having a different Spanish teacher than before. His name is Gustavo, he’s from here and he speaks Spanish, English and a bit of German. The good thing is that he only speaks Spanish to us and only lets us speak Spanish back to him. It’s obviously the best way to learn a language and I already, after just a few weeks, feel much more confident in understanding and speaking. He keeps saying: “Español es un idoma muy bonito, todo es facíl!” - Spanish is a very beautiful language, everything is easy! It doesn’t matter if we’re working with irregular verbs or subjuntivo or preterito indefinido or imperativo - todo es facíl! But sometimes I just feel like I’m never gonna learn this language… <br /><br />

Social work and of course, surfing...

Elin Thyr
2006-02-25 13:36:29

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Hey everyone!

Wow, they days are just flying over here. I can’t believe we’ve already been here for over a month. And I can’t believe that we barely have two left… Today we had our first week of Spanish class after our little “vacation”. We had last week off from school and it actually feels pretty good to be back. We’ve been having a different Spanish teacher than before. His name is Gustavo, he’s from here and he speaks Spanish, English and a bit of German. The good thing is that he only speaks Spanish to us and only lets us speak Spanish back to him. It’s obviously the best way to learn a language and I already, after just a few weeks, feel much more confident in understanding and speaking. He keeps saying: “Español es un idoma muy bonito, todo es facíl!” - Spanish is a very beautiful language, everything is easy! It doesn’t matter if we’re working with irregular verbs or subjuntivo or preterito indefinido or imperativo - todo es facíl! But sometimes I just feel like I’m never gonna learn this language…

I spent the week mainly surfing, calming down (we had such a hectic week just before the Further east we found this Playa - and a local "guide": Dito.vacation) and hanging out with some of the “sporty” people - or so we call them, it’s the other group of Norwegians who are taking that tropical open-air jadajada course. A few of the girls that I live with went to Santo Domingo, the capital, for a couple of days and it was so great just being on my own in the apartment. I really like everyone, this really couldn’t have been better, but sometimes you just want to be on your own. But I was already missing them again after a few days… I’ve been quite a lot down at Encuentro surfing with the sporties and it’s been really good fun. I’m standing quite a lot and feeling the thrill of soaring on the waves. I’ve also been feeling the power of the waves when they break on top of me. I’ve ...