Last day at school! Did a quick revision of stuff, particularly what I've particularly struggled with but she recommended practising and listening carefully and said that there was no way round memorising the irregular verbs! No kidding! Then we did possessive pronouns (all their different variations, including genders and plurals) before we watched a DVD with the sound off. The DVD was a short 10-minute film about how the indigenas use cuy (guinea pig) t...

Did some imperativo tenses or commands (mandatos), such as instructions in Spanish class today, using both positive commands and negative commands, which of course, require different conjugations and only apply to the third person singular (which is tu, I always have to think what the second and third person is, even for English). Of course, it's complicated by whether the verb is irregular or not and then there's the complication that some spellings don't exi...

Today felt like my best day yet at class - even though I didn't completely get all the irregular verb conjugations (or the sentences,) for the homework that I was assigned. Absolutely shattered the night before, as a dog barking at 3:30 am woke me, plus a car alarm that went off. Now, that I've started to sleep, I keep getting woken up or being disturbed by car alarms (which I don't remember hearing the first week I was jetlagged and couldn't sleep). I manag...

Today we carried on with more reflexive verbs and was then introduced to the three groups of irregular verbs! Which, of course, I am recommended to memorise! (I've probably swallowed around a hundred verbs or so, with about 5 - 10 in the first couple of days, but then shown about 60-odd later and expected to know how to use them. Of course, the first few that you get taught and use regularly tend to be the irregular ones… Anyway, in the afternoon, I decid...

We all met up at 8:00 outside the Spanish school, all that is except Sam and Anya, who had to be woken up from their beds by one of the teachers, before we headed out. After a 2 ½ hr trip which passed through Yunguilla Reserve, a conservation/community project, we eventually arrived at Mindo. We must have gone up a significant height up because my ears kept 'popping' every now and again, on the minibus trip up to Mindo, where we then stopped for lunch, on ar...