Monday, October 17, 2005 (Antigua, Guatemala) Shannon: Sean and I started our Spanish language classes today and it was…well, we’ll see… The biggest problem is that my teacher doesn’t speak any English - and I don’t speak any Spanish, obviously. You don’t have to look very far to see the problem in this one. It was pretty disappointing, since it appears that the other teachers do speak English and mine is the only one who doesn’t. (When we interviewed with the director of the school we were really clear about my language abilities, so I’m not sure what he was thinking when he made up the teacher-student assignments.) We muddled through the first lesson, but a lot seemed to be lost in the translation. On the bright side, I did manage to pick up some things
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