Humility.

Today was our first day of Spanish lessons at El Centro Linguistico La Unión. We met at the school at 8am and were placed in a big circle with all of our teachers. We went around the circle and introduced ourselves with our name, where we are from, and what we like to do.
"Hola. Mi nombre es Jennifer. Soy de Michigan en los Estados Unidos. Me gusta pasar tiempo con mis sobrinos."
We were then introduced to our teachers and we got right to work! My teacher is Sabina and she seems to be pretty strict. Not in a bad way, but I can tell that I will certainly have to work hard this semester. It is very humbling to sit down with a person and try to make conversation in their native language. I have spent seven years studying Spanish from high school to college and I am certainly not fluent. I know a lot of things and I can get by with what I know, but it is really hard to speak in Spanish for three and a half hours with someone writing down every little mistake made. I prayed this morning that I would learn a lot and walk away with a knew knowledge of the language...so, let's just say that God answers prayers. I will certainly be learning a lot this semester! However, I don't want to be discouraged when Sabina is always correcting me...I know that things will get better. After all, today was only the first day! 
It is strange right now because I have all the afternoon's free and I speak a lot of English with those on my trip. I really need to work on my Spanish skills and I hope that I can start some volunteer work soon so that I can get to practicing my skills!

This evening we may be going to some Salsa y Meringue lessons for FREE! I'll keep you all posted on how that goes!

Adios amigos!

-J