This one will be short. A long and fun entry with lots of pictures is coming next! The first week here I was stressing over my ultimate goal of studying abroad to come back fluent. A good number of the students are more advanced than I am in speaking skills and it was discouraging me. But I've realized those who speak well have traveled A LOT. To keep it short, point is: I can already tell that my ability to translate into English will be better just from hearing people talk around me and reading more. It's hard to explain if you haven't taken a translation class, but I feel like I'm benefiting from study abroad already!
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