Hoy fue mi última Jueves en Intercultura. Estoy triste para salir de Intercultura y Heredia, pero al mismo tiempo estoy muy emocionada a venir a San Ramón con mis padres.
Mañana, voy a graduarme. Si no hubiera venido a Costa Rica este verano, no habría mejorado mi español. Ahora estoy pensando en español y he tenido sueños en español. Es muy extraño pero lo me gusta.
(Translation: Today was my last Thursday at Intercultura. I am sad to leave Intercultura and Heredia, but at the same time, I am very excited to go to San Ramón with my parents. Tomorrow I will graduate. If I would not have come to Costa Rica this summer, I would not have improved my Spanish. Now, I am thinking in Spanish and I have had dreams in Spanish. It is very weird, but I like it.)
So today in class we had our conversation time, reviewed our homework, and then we began an activity. We spread out at least 100 Spanish words on the table, and then we were divided into two teams of two. I named our team "Los ganadores" (the winners) as a premonition. We were to listen to the song "Historia de Taxi" by Ricardo Arjona and anytime we heard one of the many words on the table, we were to grab that card. My competitive side (not one of my better traits) definitely came out during this game. We were slapping the table in attempts to be the first to grab a word card. We listened to the song three times to continue with the word recognition. Then unfortunately, since we were all fired up, it was time for a break.
Once we returned, we counted our cards. The other team had 33 cards and my team (los ganadores) had 35! But the game wasn't over yet...now time for the comprehension portion. Mónica had many questions about the song and each had different point values. The first group to hit the table, got to answer the question. We were so violent! On the first question, I bruised myself by hitting the table so hard. Slamming your wrist bone on wood = not a good idea. There were several instances where all four of us slapped the table, just to be the first to be able to answer, but when it came down to it, nobody even knew the answer! By the end of the game, without even doing the arithmetic, it was obviously which team had won....LOS GANADORES, por supuesto. But we added up the points anways. The final score was 76.5 (los ganadores) to 48!
Then we quickly reviewed the present perfect subjunctive and the pluscuamperfecto subjunctive. I don't know how or why, but something has clicked in my head (or I've had enough practice over the past 7 weeks) that I know how to use these tenses well enough to use them in conversation and in writing. So for homework we had a worksheet on each of these tenses. And of course, every Friday is exam day. I'm the only one in my class actually taking these Spanish classes for college credit, so I'm the only one who is required to take an exam; however, if one student takes the exam, the whole class has to take it. Last week it turned out that the rest of the class just skipped on Friday to avoid taking an exam that wouldn't even count for anything, but this week our exam is actually to write an essay tonight and turn it in tomorrow. That's good, because a) I don't have to study anything and b) I won't have the rest of the class mad at me for having to take an exam! haha
I had one piece of paper left in my notebook tonight (that couldn't have worked out any better!) in which I wrote my last essay for Intercultura. So basically I've finished all my work today. In the essay we had to retell one of the legends we heard this week and then use the pluscuamperfecto subjuntivo to explain "if ______ wouldn't have happened, then __________ wouldn't occured." (más o menos). Remember the legend "el secreto de la llama" that I wrote about in my blog a few days ago? Well, I remembered it too, so that's the one I wrote about.
Now that I have bored you all with grammar terms, it is time that I say buenas noches. (Only 2 more sleeps 'til I see mi madre y mi padre!!!!!!!!!!)
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