Here's a picture of me eating cake in Vietnam. It was a big cake and someone had to make an effort. This weekend I did heaps of things. It was the first essay-free weekend I've had for a while so I decided to stack it full of things I hadn't done in a while. Didn't quite get to the markets, but did catch up with a friend on Saturday lunch, went out for dinner on Saturday night, went to touch training and took some photos for the flyer, then headed up to see my family. Yay for MM, he lent me his scooter so I didn't have to take the bus (bicylce still being repaired). Saturday morning I went to the Vocational Language Learning Centre to enquire about learning Spanish there. They charge about as much as 2 return tickets to Spain just for a 100 hour course. Think I'll just look for something else. Their language teaching methods are not exactly inspired either, if I wanted to learn a language by sitting in front of a computer I would just buy an online package for 100th the price. I had a free tour of the place and if I already wasn't put off, the demo where I had to sit at a computer with a headset on and listen to someone say 'esta es una casa' 5 times with 2 second intervals between each word really turn me away. No one speaks as slowly as that so what is the point of teaching me that slowly? Certainly no one speaks Spanish that slowly!!
So the search for Spanish classes continues. The problem is they are all either way too short - only 10 weeks, or they cost too much, or they don't start until next year. Boo.
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