Marina Carenero
Bocas del Toro, Panama
The highlight of the month has been Spanish class for me. I opted to continue for 3 weeks to stay with the other two women in my class, and worked my way through the preterit, imperfect, future and conditional tenses, none of which I understood back in college. It’s becoming clear though that what I’m missing is vocabulary, so I’ll have to start reading the paper or find myself some children’s books to start to grow it. But the confidence is coming. I also like the way the classes are structured – the first two hours are grammar, and the second two hours are conversation.