Blog 4- It's hot and what are you wearing?

This chapter was the most useful in my opinion so far. Not only did we finally learn how to describe what we are wearing and what others are wearing but we also learned to describe the weather. Now when my grandpa calls me and asks hows the weather I can respond "hace calor" or whatever the weather is in spanish! How exciting! Anyways, thats not all the great fun we had in this chapter. We also learned about reciprocal verbs and stem changing verbs. Personally I like a little spice in life so stem changing verbs aren't that big of a deal to me. You just have to learn to look for them and memorize them. Furthermore, reciprocal verbs only occur for nosotros and ellos/ellas/uds. so its not that big of a deal. Just remember to use nos or se to describe "we ...each other" or "they ... each other". No worries. Also the irregular verbs are the same as the stem changers. They add spice. Plus we already know some irregulars like ir and tener. The rest of the chapter was pretty simple. I did like the whole "ir + a+infinitive" formula to describe how your doing something in the future. It is very useful in everyday conversation like "Voy a correr" or "Voy a estudiar."

In culture news, this just in, the Caribbean uses more subject pronouns than other Spanish-speaking areas. They are already so good in baseball and now this? Cmon Caribbean. Also Hemmingway loved the island of Cuba for its beautiful scenery, great cigars, and enough cat litter for his 2 million cats. Wait those are beaches? Sorry. Watch your step. (really it was only 57 cats but still)

Honestly though, this was a fun chapter. The test wasn't too bad and the homework load is getting better. I really like learning how to speak a new language its just something about 20 worksheets that crawls under my skin. I understand in order to learn effectively we have to do them but it just gets a little repetitive and boring. The speed "dating/socializing/meet your neighbor" was by far the best class yet. And the family day was cool too. We should have a pattern to class. Like mondays are dictoglas days, tuesdays are watch a cool video and write what they are saying day, wednesday is reading day, and then thursdays are conversation day were we just talk to our neighbors about different things. Just mix up class where we don't sit and do a dictoglas 3 days in a row. Or atleast email me and be like "dictoglas day is coming" so i can prepare myself. Ill be sure to wear comfortable shoes that day or something so I can make it through it.

Adios