hablame

Because I'm a total masochist (among other reasons) I'm taking classes all summer.  I started this morning, with Spanish 2010, and was promptly made to feel like an idiot.  I could mostly understand what my professor was saying, but trying to summon up vocabulary from my own brain was practically a lost cause.  I haven't been in an actual Spanish class since December 2008, so I suppose I should allow myself a little leeway- I can't be expected to perfectly recall what "pider" means after that long, can I?

Actually, I'm starting to suspect I mis-remember the teacher using that word. The Internet is convinced it doesn't exist. (So is my student dictionary.)

I realize I'm a perfectionist and I push myself too hard in some things. (I will point out, though, that if I'm convinced a class is stupid I won't work for it. Case in point- English 2010. How I got an A I will never know.)  Everyone else in the class is coming fresh from Spanish 1020 and didn't do much better than me. I still feel like I should be better, though, since I've taken beginning Spanish THREE TIMES in my life, and I'm exposed to it fairly regularly (my in-laws are fairly fluent and talk to each other in it, much to everyone else's chagrin).  I'm just a language nerd, that's all it is.

I only have to get through the next 4 months, then I never have to take another Spanish class and I'll be that much closer to graduating.