Dos chicos aprendan Español
Lo siento no escribé para un mas tiempo pero estuvimos estudiano Español y estuve necesitar, sorry just slipped into that, I should probably continue in English!
We have been in Cuenca for a week, staying with a lovely local family, and taking Spanish lessons. Rach is pretty good now, I however, am still struggling. I have big problems with pronunciations - particularly with any words containing a “g”, “ll”, “qu”, “c” or “ñ” (so most words really!) At times in our lessons I felt like a 7 year old learning to read for the first time!
Although Rach did best in the lessons, I did much better with our host family. Not in terms of Spanish though, but in terms of food. As you probably know Rach likes her food just as much as me, but our Ecuadorian hosts thought otherwise, and much to her dismay, I was always served meals almost twice the size of hers! I was also often offered seconds, whereas Rach never was - serves her right for all those meals she made me skip in Colombia!
We’ve both liked being students again for a bit and having a routine to our day. In hindsight 5 hour lessons may have been a bit too much. I generally lost concentration after about an hour and a half, Rach faired a bit better and lasted about 4 hours, but we were both exhausted in the afternoons. The only thing we had energy to do for our homework was to go to the cinema and watch a film. OK so the films were in English but they had Spanish subtitles! When we went out for a few beers on Friday we felt like we had really earned them.
We stayed in Cuenca for 8 nights, more than twice as long as any other place so far. We enjoyed the longer stay; being able to unpack our bags and have a bit of a routine. Interestingly though by the end of our stay we were both getting restless to move on – we are obviously not ready to return to work just yet.
Exciting as it was, Spanish school didn’t yield many photo opportunities, so here are a few misfits of other stuff we have been up to:
Rob milking a cow, Posada de Tigua
Rach riding a llama, Posada de Tigua
Posada de Tigua, Quilotoa Loop
Rob at Laguna Quilotoa
Pilion del Diabolo, Banos
... With a rainbow
Volcan Chimborazo
Mountain biking down Volcan Chimborazo
New cathedral, Cuenca
New cathedral door, Cuenca
Good Spanish there, chico y chica! The lessons sound exhausting but pictures are beautiful as ever.
Rach, I’ve actually got a wedding question for you (one day I’ll be able to stop entioning it in every sentence!) Did you have someone do your make up on the day? Would you recommend them? I thought you looked beautiful.
Cheers for any advice and buen viaje! x
Lins Rach is going to send you all the details on facebook. We are still waiting for our invite, the address is
Rob and Rach
Peru
South America
How fantastic you are both going to be fluent before you make peru at this rate. Rod watch the waistline I can see a spanish speaking porky being taken for a native
Is the curfew announced in Honduras going to restrict you in any way??? More hugs to Rae Dadx
Dont know what time is it ?!
“No puede usted ver a mi carburador se ha roto?” That is the entirety of my spanish. I’m not even sure if that makes sense. Are you guys going to bring a llama back with you?
We have been on two buses that have broken down, if only we had know this Spanish then, maybe we could have pointed out the problem!
Have great sympathies over the Spanish lessons, Rob. Know exactly what you mean about all those letters! Can’t believe you are really milking a cow there. Is this a new career move? Love Mum