We had a very tranquil day! No flooding, no power outages, not problems with the air conditioner. Bill and I went swimming this morning. He tried out his new snorkel gear, I swam and bounced in the waves then soaked up sun on the beach. It was lovely. We fixed some mediocre pasta for lunch then headed off for our second day of classes. I really enjoy conversation with my teacher. She’s very young, energetic and fun to talk to. The second half of my three hour class was all grammar. That’s not fun! We worked on some verb forms that I’ve had a hard time with and I didn’t do all that well with them today. But, it’s an important concept that I need to learn.
There’s a French student here who I mentioned earlier. I think she’s probably in her 60s and she’s traveling alone. She asked me to go to lunch with her tomorrow for a conversation in French. I’m going to watch French news for a while tomorrow morning to remind myself what that language sounds like! I think it will be an interesting conversation, but it takes my brain some time to switch to French, especially after several days of Spanish.
After class this evening, Bill found a neat little restaurant where we had another good meal. I have pictures below. Bill had fried fish, and I had shrimp risotto. It was delicious!
We’re back at our apartment now and I’m completely exhausted. I have pretty good pictures to post below though so this will be a more colorful post. I had a cute video of Bill speaking Spanish in class, but WordPress doesn’t give me video options with this blog.
Traveling with Emily! 