Too long have I been dilly dallying with this assignment. Four weeks ago our Spanish teacher announced that one, no more English, only Spanish; two, that in three weeks we would have written an essay in Spanish to be read in class; and three, there would be a test on verb tenses the week after that.
Well, the first of these didn't happen, at least for me. I have a very limited Spanish vocabulary, am just catching on to the verb tense thing, and I don't seem to be able to hear what I do know. Thankfully, the others are very patient with me and with a lot of coaching and a lot of praise and encouragement from our instructor, I struggle through the oral stuff. My pronunciation is good, I just can't recall vocabulary quickly.
And the essay? Really, what a difficult thing. I did one sentence, then another, then another. Okay, that's a paragraph. Then I made the mistake of Googling 'essay' and found that there is actually a formal essay format. Five parts. There is NO WAY this essay of mine is going to have five parts. I am going to be lucky to construct three.
I'm not even going to have three if I just don't get at it......................
