It is time to begin
writing. I left California a week ago and it has been a nonstop whirlwind of
activities for the entire week. Before I began this journey I thought I would
write daily and describe my adventures. But this past week has caused me to
pause and reconsider. I am here to learn to speak Spanish. In order to speak
Spanish fluently, I need to think in Spanish. This is beginning to happen.
However, English is my dominant language. I’m not sure, but I believe that
maybe the more time I spend thinking, speaking and writing in English, the
slower will be my progression to Spanish.
I do want to share this
journey with all my friends, and I want my friends to share with me what is
going on in their lives too. So I will write, but maybe not as often as I
anticipated.
So the main topic here
is the weather. It is the coldest winter in more than 200 years! I hate cold
weather. I like temperatures in the high 90s and above. So maybe there are
lessons here for me.
I am with a bunch of
young kids. Now I like young people, but not in gaggles. There one or two who
are 23 to 25, the rest are 21 and under. The main topic of their conversation,
interestingly enough, is not the opposite sex (that is second on the list.)
Heading the list by a mile is alcohol. What they drink, where they drink, how
long they drink, wo they drink with and what happens when they drink. They talk
about alcohol more than we do at meetings. lol
But I’m hanging in and
they seem to like me and accept me as part of their community. Yesterday we
received lessons from a real live and still fighting matador on how to fight a
bull. We even got to practice the moves with a fake bull. Apparently at some
point on this trip we are going to the countryside to visit the matador and
receive further instruction in this tradition/sport. We are also going to
practice with baby bulls. And we are going to do the running of the bulls, like
Pamploma, with baby bulls. I will try to get pictures for you of me in these
rather precarious situations. The matador by the way is extremely good looking
and very nice. His moves with the cape are like a very intricate ballet. He is
becoming a close runner up to Johnny Depp. J
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