Why Is She Laughing At Me?

That is what David asked in class today. And my answer to him . . .

"porqué sos un culo"

(did I get that right???) Thanks to the last class, I learned what a "culo" was (for those that don't know, it's an ASS.)

Well, enough about David for the moment. I decided to take the weekend off and took a little break between classes 4 and 5. I went to an asado on Friday night with a mixed group of both locals and ex-pats and was able to share all the new words I learned in class that day. I must say, while no one was offended, they were all pretty surprised at how graphic some of the slang words were that were taught. After many bottles of wine my friends were able to teach me some more slang Spanish as well (although I don't think I will share those!!)

I really enjoyed today's class (with the exception of David of course!!). Today was the day we learned "estados de ánimos" or moods. With all that has been going on with my neck (and to add insult to injury, my husband has come down with some sort of stomach virus within the past 36 hours), the moods in my house have varied quite a bit lately.

I actually took a lot of notes today and paused the tape frequently to jot down things that were of interest and might come in handy some day. In addition, they did mention something that I thought was quite amusing and quite appropriate for me (that is, before I moved to BsAs and started eating every steak in sight and drinking so much wine):

Hace tanto tiempo qué estoy a dieta! (It has been so long that I am on a diet!)

I am starting to wonder who Bueno, entonces... Learn Spanish is really geared to. In today's class, for example, I think just a bit too much time was spent on "pedo". While pedo apparently means quite a few things, the end result was getting Jimena to admit that it also meant fart. I was beginning to feel as though I eavesdropped on a conversation between my husband and some of his idiot friends after many cervezas!! Now let me think, do they do this in Rosetta Stone?? Pimsleur?? Just curious!!

Overall I really enjoyed today's class since I was able to add quite a few new vocabulary words to my repertoire.

Apparently, since David's mother is still in town there might be some surprises in store for us. Guess I will find out soon enough.