I'm back. Typing furiously in an Internet cafe. Here goes. Last week, I had 4 hours of Spanish classes a day, and for the most part I feel as if my Spanish hasn’t improved too dramatically. An unbiased observer might argue otherwise, but here, in the thick of the San Pedro scene, I feel a bit stuck, language-wise. I can read and write Spanish pretty well, but I have some sort of psychological mind block against speaking Spanish and following what other people say. For example, I just learned the past tense of Spanish verbs, and now I'm speaking exclusively in the past tense. Not on purpose, mind you. Anyhow, it makes for fascinating conversation. At least that's what I'm telling the people I'm talking to. I'm telling them using the past tense, of course. Now,
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