Today in class we finished talking about pronouns and using both direct (what?) and indirect (to whom?) object pronouns. About halfway through the morning a couple office assistants came into our class to give us class evaluation forms and photo releases. I was able to remember my passport number, but completely spaced on how to spell "University of Nebraska-Lincoln." We then played a game where we had to spilt our inheritance from our Aunt Pepa, and practice using pronouns. I got tennis rackets, trees, surfboards, and a dog. It was an hilarious adventure; Diego got a collection of high heels and a piggy bank. We were a mix of native English and Chinese speakers so explaining piggy bank was an adventure in talking in circles. During our break an elderly man came up to Emily, Sophie and I and talked to us while standing rather close, and then gave us the customary cheek kisses before he left. I know its part of the Spanish culture but it made me super uncomfortable since I had no idea who this man was. After the break we talked about our exam tomorrow and played a vocabulary review game using a game show format. First we had a couple of words that we had to define in teams, and then we went around the room telling the first letter of the word and then giving the definition. The rest of the teams had to race to say the correct vocab word first. Our team won with 11.5 points; I remembered more vocab than I realized I knew. And finally, we quickly reviewed the grammar we talked about in class; and I remembered most of what we learned.
For lunch today we had spaghetti and I actually cleaned my entire plate for the very first time! Sandra was so proud of me! At 3pm the daily news comes onto the TV and today it was very political. Since I have my exam tomorrow I decided to study during siesta time. However, I quickly fell into a warm room food coma and took a little siesta. I eventually woke up and began the process of going through all of my notes from the past month or so. I started by going through all of the vocabulary we learned and when I couldn't remember what it was, I'd type it into Google Images so I'd associate the spanish word with the object rather than the english which apparently helps to learn the words. I spent most of the evening studying and getting distracted by finding Max Ernst's painting on Pinterest. I drank a really good cold (not iced) tea that I thought was some sort of alcohol when Sandra first brought me a glass; as well as fresh orange juice and bread. I worked through most of the evening and through my solo dinner of fried cheese sticks and fries, peach, yogurt and bread. While watching the end of today's Tour stage, I got really excited thinking I understood what the cyclist was saying in Spanish... turns out the stage 16 yellow jersey winner is from Great Britain. This is what happens when you study spanish all night long!
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