Saturday, January 28, 2023

Language Club.

 After having an expensive day at the supermecado(food store), we returned home to await our meeting at 8:00 PM with the International Language Club in Los Narejos. Actually, International should be changed to Spanish Language Club because of the 11 people, 8 were Spanish and only 3 were English. 95% of th time speaking was one Spanish person speaking to the others. As an English speaker hoping to improve their Spanish, there wasn't much chance for that.

Joan and I listened and waited for the time to go to the Chinese restaurant for dinner at about 10 PM. It was much better after that because we sat opposite 3 Spanish people who spoke with us in Spanish and corrected my mistakes.

We also celebrated the 41st birthday of one member, Ester, and many friends from her dance group joined us. The food was excellent and Joan was very happy about being there even though she spoke no Spanish. We came back home at midnight, I put her to bed and started putting this blog together. Now it's 1:20 AM, and I'm tired and going to bed/ Pictures of the evening are on the blog.

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