This will be brief because typing with one finger on your right hand due to a cast sucks.

So I have an irony to point out!

About a week after I got here my status on facebook read something like "they say that you should be more or less fluent in 2 months, by this reasoning I should be more or less fluent before my birthday." Well boys and girls I had my first spanish dream on november 19th... eg the day before my birthday... eg the last time I slept before my birthday... eg the last possible opportunity for that prediction to come true.

Even my subconscious procrastinates.

Matt Damon Should Never Ride A Scooter On Screen...

So I have discovered that watching movies in Spanish is by far one of my favorite pastimes. Watching movies that I have never seen before (like The Godfather, Death At A Funeral, etc.) it great like always, but there is also watching the great old favorites just to hear the same lines but in Spanish. My favorite so far is "No es volando. Es caer... con estilo!" (for those of you who are too lazy to translate, the quote is from Toy Story.) It also frees up some attention cells because I have seen it before so I notice odd things, like the fact that Matt Damon looks like a complete moron on a Mo-Ped.

Mondays suck. Tomorrow is one. Good Night.

Irony

I find it extremely humorous that my feelings about Spanish are in constant flux. (Of course feeling that is humorous fluctuates too.) One day I will be feeling like crap because I am feeling like my Spanish has not improved in weeks and I am just wasting time, and the next day I have a day when I have some great improvement. This happens fairly regularly, and it happened today.

The past few days I have been feeling kinda down on my Spanish skills because, like previously stated, I felt they were not really improving. My vocabulary was not grow (at least it felt like it), and I had to concentrate like all hell just to understand what is going on. Then today I was sitting in Psicología when I realized I was understanding the Jav (see previous posts if this confuses you). The fact that I was understanding was not in itself remarkable because I can usually kind of understand-more or less-what he is saying, but the fact that I was kind of-more or less- understanding WITHOUT CONCENTRATING struck me suddenly.

I was going to write way more than this but I am extremely tired so that is all.

buenas

WARNING! DANGER! TAKE EVASIVE ACTION IMMEDIATELY!

My host mom has started to threaten birthday festivities...

And now on to a topic that has nothing to do with the title of this post. (the above line is, while true, really just an excuse to write "evasive action")

School is getting better. I had a philosophy exam yesterday, and today the philosophy teacher sought me out to tell me that I had done better than most of the class. I also do homework now because I can actually understand when the teachers tell us what we have to do, but I still usually have a reduced assignment. Not that I usually do it right, but I am getting there.

I am trying to cut back on English a little so that is all for today.