I'm slowly but surely speaking more, and with more confidence. I've told all my friends who speak English to ONLY speak in Spanish with me, except Jose b/c I know he likes to practice English too (as evidenced by the fact that whenever I tell him about a new word or idiomatic phrase, he uses it in a sentence and tries to spell it), but even with ( Read more... )

Shannon, I forgot to tell you! I met the French professor here, and he's Escobar's long lost twin. Holy crap, dude! They're the same person, I swear. I went to the meeting of the Asociacion de estudiantes de Frances, and so it was quite fun to have a conversation in Spanish/French mixed. Espancais or something LOL like Spanglish. ANYWAY, I ( Read more... )

I was in the office with Jose, and I was laughing at a stupid joke he told me, and as I was calming down I said without thinking, "Ay, Dios!" And as soon as I said it I was like ....whoa wtf where did that come from? He was like "AHA! You've been here less than a month! It's working!!!" Problem is we usually talk in English, out of habit, even ( Read more... )

It's been a few days. Well let's see. I met a person in class yesterday, after he said something to me... at first I understood him and then he just started rambling and I was like .................. LMAO So we came to the understanding that I'm American, he started speaking English (and Spanish, but more slowly), and so now I have a friend in my ( Read more... )

The good news: I'm going to the movies tonight with some friends ( Read more... )

Today I went with Jose and some of his friends to his friend's house, where we had an assorted variety of games to play. First they taught me Brisca, which is apparently some type of card game from Italy that they play here all the time, and I'd never even heard of. Then we played Parcheesy (is that spelled right?), and Dance Dance Revolution ( ( Read more... )

It's really weird, listening to songs in Spanish now... like, I was walking to class with my MP3 player on, and it played Luis Fonsi... and even though I've had the song forever, it just seemed so weird to have it on in Puerto Rico. I'm not entirely sure why yet. But maybe Shannon has had a similar experience? Or another person who has gone to a ( Read more... )

It's a little disconcerting, walking through campus. I feel like everyone knows I'm a foreigner, even though they'd really have no way of knowing unless they talked to me. It feels like being a freshman all over again; not knowing where to go or what to do, where to sit, whether you should talk to the professor or not... I feel almost obligated ( Read more... )

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5ampunkrock

I haven't written here since I got to Puerto Rico, so here's word to everyone that I am, in fact, alive. I made it just in time before the crazy travel scare of yesterday; thankfully, since I accidentally packed my forks and knives in my carryon and had the latter confiscated. That would not have gone over well ( Read more... )