So, I am getting ready to write a new blog, and then I realize I have to write in English. Do not get me wrong...I am not fluent in Spanish (and one could argue I am not fluent in English). But almost every task, including teaching, requires that I speak/think in Spanish. In fact, today was the first day I had the opportunity to teach in English (myself and another volunteer are teaching some local mothers English), and I couldn´t teach. It was their first class, so we were just teaching greetings and numbers (we played BINGO to practice our numbers...BINGO will unite the world!) and I had the hardest time, because I found myself thinking in Spanish, yet having to speak in English. Worse yet, now I cannot speak complete sentences in Spanish or
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