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amorousodiousI went to my práctica (internship) on Tuesday morning, and the article that I worked on translating was a LOT more difficult than what I had done the week before. It was about a study done over a program that takes high risk children from neighborhoods and puts them into programs practically from birth to stimulate their cognitive development so that they won’t have such a hard time in school. Honestly, I really hope that’s what the article is about because I could be very wrong. Just kidding, I knew what it was about, but the writing style of the author in Spanish made it extremely difficult to translate, long sentences that just don’t have a word for word equivalent. Afterward, Francisco (the supervisor) told us that sometimes the staff all gets together for mealtimes with the interns to socialize and learn more about RELIEVE and in general what they do there. We might get to do that in a few weeks, so I’m super excited.
After práctica I headed to school to practice teatro. Pilar told us that since it was midterm week, we could skip a week and start up again next week…however, the vote was a unanimous “we need a break from studying” so we proceeded. By next week we should have a rudimentary script, so things will really start moving along. I’m excited, I think that our skit will turn out to be really funny.
Unfortunately, teatro did come to an end and we returned to our books and studied endlessly until the center closed. I headed back towards home, but took a short detour to the locutorio where I skyped my friend Michael. He (finally) bought a skype phone, which apparently you can use without a computer, wherever there’s a wireless connection. It doesn’t have a webcam feature of course, but it was still sweet to be able to talk to him.
Back at home we had ensalada and sopa de verduras (salad and vegetable soup) for la cena, and of course returned to studying soon after. Alicia and I had the same grammar exam the next day so we studied our vocabulary together. A lot of the words were really difficult to remember, and there was a montón de vocabulario (just means a heck of a lot) to memorize. We felt fairly confident when we went to bed that we would at least pass the test.
After práctica I headed to school to practice teatro. Pilar told us that since it was midterm week, we could skip a week and start up again next week…however, the vote was a unanimous “we need a break from studying” so we proceeded. By next week we should have a rudimentary script, so things will really start moving along. I’m excited, I think that our skit will turn out to be really funny.
Unfortunately, teatro did come to an end and we returned to our books and studied endlessly until the center closed. I headed back towards home, but took a short detour to the locutorio where I skyped my friend Michael. He (finally) bought a skype phone, which apparently you can use without a computer, wherever there’s a wireless connection. It doesn’t have a webcam feature of course, but it was still sweet to be able to talk to him.
Back at home we had ensalada and sopa de verduras (salad and vegetable soup) for la cena, and of course returned to studying soon after. Alicia and I had the same grammar exam the next day so we studied our vocabulary together. A lot of the words were really difficult to remember, and there was a montón de vocabulario (just means a heck of a lot) to memorize. We felt fairly confident when we went to bed that we would at least pass the test.
