Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Español para extranjeros a UBA (Ken)


Tomorrow, Wednesday, is the last day of class before exams. We have class the regular three hours and then a one hour review where we can esk for help with anything we want. Thursday is the two-hour written final. We will be tested on conjugating present and present progressive verbs, vocabulary, some imperfect past tense, me gusta, me encanta, me molesta, and irregular verbs.
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Friday is the oral final. A professor, other than the two with whom we have been working, will interview each of us individually. We will be expected to hold a simple conversation about ourselves, out homes, our families, what we have done in Buenos Aires, and so on.
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They will ask us questions that will make us talk in present tense, past tense, and discuss our future plans.
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For those of you who have been following, the class was supposed to have 14 students. Two never showed up. There were two other US Americans: Leese and Guy, they dropped out the first week. Rebecca, from New Zealand, hung in there quite a while, but she is doing remote radio broadcasts back home and writing for the Buenos Aires Herald, the local English-language daily, while here. That finally caught up with her and she´s gone. Owen, from Dublin, just this week stopped coming. His roommate is ill and returning to Ireland. Owen is headed back with him Thursday. I guess he is busy getting ready to leave.
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That leaves the lineup you see above. Left to right, Eva, the International Studies student from Shanghi; Ulrike, the lawyer from Munich, who is interning with an Argentine law firm while here; Helen, mi mujer; Barbara, an independent film and video producer from Berlin; Maria, a computer systems worker from Zurich; and Jonah, a marketing director from Helsinki. And me, absent from the photo, you faithful blogger and photographer.
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We get a week off next week before the February class begins. Tomorrow should be a BIG adventure. We have to go to the main post office to pick up a package. Multiple challenges lie ahead: a new bus route, a huge beauracracy, Argentine efficiency and customer service . . . can´t wait.

1 comment:

Chas said...

Jeez, Helen, you look like a deer in the headlights even when nothing's goin on! (and them blue eyes make you stand out from the crowd.)