On my tan. A kid, probably 7 or so, passed me on the sidewalk tonight and said 'Hiiiy Meester!' and kept walking.
I have this dream of some day not being so easily pegged as a Gringo, but these things take time.
I also need to develope a better study ethic. I was going to blog about this over the weekend, but I went dancing instead ;-) which is why the blog titled "making friends vs. Hablar español" doesn't really fit the topic.
I was planning to use that title to explore the conundrum of being in an immersive environment with other english speakers. it becomes so easy to speak more English outside the classroom, instead of stretching my mind to communicate in a foreign language.
There are a lot of people who speak English as well as spanish, but I find that we end up speaking English because my Spanish is next to nothing, and they prefer to practice English. I have a couple of books in spanish now, and it helps me exercise my mouth to read aloud, I can even follow the story to some degree. En Los Estadosunidos, I was told that I'm good at rolling my Rs; here I am corrected several times a day for not putting enough rrrrrrr in my doubleR's. :-)
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