Friday, August 17, 2012

Solo espanol por favor!

I think I have hit a mental wall of procrastination, along with a severe case of writers block. But here we go up date of the past few days! The past two days I have been off school! Which was great! I got to sleep!! Which I needed, and I still need. I may have said this already but I am tired ALL of the TIME. It is no exaggeration every hour of the day I am wiped out! I talked to a few other exchange students and they said it is the same for them. This may be because of having to focus so much on what is happening around me all the time along with trying to understand what people are saying. Also because I haven't slept through the night sense day #1! But the past few days have been good time being able to reciprocate and now it's the weekend which is even better! Tonight I was walking with my cousins and my sister and I saw the sunset, it does so at about 5pm here, and it was stunning EVERY color imaginable with the palm trees swaying in the wind. It was a split second but I felt at peace with how every thing is going here.
I think that my Spanish is improving slowly but surely! I do not study too much because it doesn't stick with me but I'll try to just have a conversation and I'll learn more there than two hours with my nose in a book. My comprehension though definitely isn't perfect, it is getting a lot better. I can get most of what people say. Except it amazes me how people do not pronounce their words! They will say entire paragraphs without even opening their mouth and things are completely slurred together like a drunk person that makes it very hard. Also the other challenge is Guarani! I have had the same argument over 9000000 times sense arrival that I MUST learn Spanish before Guarani which is logical because people cannot even tell me the definition of the word in Guarani! But people get completely angry with me! I try to explain to them that in the future I will learn, but now I must learn Spanish considering that is the first language here! And also for friends and school but the older people think that I am being massively disrespectful to their culture. Which makes me very frustrated because I am the one embracing their culture by moving here! Also my grandmother is decently aged and she only speaks Guarani with a few words of Spanish she will talk to me and expect me to answer and my mom will be like only Spanish! And she will replete the same thing in Guarani because I think she thinks she speaking Spanish. Other than that everything is okay :)

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