Be careful what you wish for ...

Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. The curriculum at the new school is SO much more rigorous than the last! My brain is fried and I have to do more homework tonight. NO ENGLISH. The teacher doesn’t even speak English, so don’t bother. They speak very clearly and they’re repetitive, but the pace is fast and the program interactive, so there's no faking it.

I would be discouraged, but I actually can keep up, albeit barely. Enforex is an internationally well known school and I feel that they know what they’re doing, both in instruction and placing me at the proper level. I have to place my trust in them, because my emotion is telling me to go back a level! Their placement test was both written and oral. I did the written portion first, and they told me that I am in between two different levels, and that they’d decide where to place me after the oral interview. I know that grammar is my weakest link, so after listening to my pronunciation and conversational ability, she placed me at the higher level. Keep in mind that this is all relative; I’m still at a lower level!

I’ve always had the problem that, when Spanish speakers hear me speak for the first time, they assume that I speak better than I do. So when they come back at me with rapid-fire Spanish, I’m like a deer in headlights. So I’m a bit nervous with this new school and where I’ve been placed. But I keep telling myself that they know what they’re doing. Still, I crawled back to the school’s bookstore after classes and bought the lower level books to brush up on my own! Bye … gotta go study.