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Thankfully I managed to find my way to school easily on the first day?and no sooner had I been introduced to my teacher than I was immediately whisked away to begin my first lesson.?At all times my teacher speaks to me in Spanish so at first it was pretty difficult to understand anything but once it?s all broken down into smaller chunks it makes the understanding much easier. If you?re forced to listen to something then eventually you start to recognise certain words and kind of work out what?s been said just be the context!
By day two I had?grasped a few basics and even managed a short conversation with my ecuadorian family over lunch. I was feeling very pleased with myself, although I was having to spend a lot of time in the afternoons going over what I had learnt in the morning to make sure I understood it all properly before the next day. Four hours a day of lessons is pretty intense but it?s good to have the afternoons to practice and also to try out new words and phrases with the family so they can correct you if you get it wrong. The only problem is I never seem to have learned the words for the things I want to say...oh well, several more weeks to go yet!
And as well as the spanish classes the school also has other activities you can get involved with, so I decided to try out the salsa class one evening. I was terrible (as I expected to be!) but?it was good fun. The steps themselves aren?t too hard but once you?try linking them all together, with music and then dancing with another person it all goes horribly wrong and there are feet and bumping bodies all over the place. I might not be the most natural salsa dancer in the world but everyone leaves with a smile on their face and a few comedy moments to talk about later!
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