Thewesternprovinceblog

Hola todos. For this one I will sum up my time for the first week of Blink Spanish school minus Christmas day – will cover that separate.

So Sunday was out of my hostel and moved round the corner to check into blink. Check in was quick and easy though and after that took care of some basics mainly ATM and more importantly getting pens and a proper notepad – you know not being the typical valleys kid who shows up not prepared for class!! 😂. Later I meet some of the other estudiantes, an English lad and a Hungarian Chica. We go out for some grub and a few drinks and call it rather early as Monday is an early start and expect chaos.

Monday was the real first day in school. It was a little chaotic finding your class, paying for the room etc and having a bit of a welcome tour. After this we were straight into class by 0800. Our group was a small group with me, an American girl and Dutch fella. Mondays classes were all about objecto directo and indirecto and refreshing past tenses. Turns out we’ve had quite some issues there as if anyone has learned Spanish you know that there are a whole bunch of them and while what you say can be ‘correct’ there are other ways of saying something was something that are more ‘correct’ – that’s how they get you on those DELE exams I think. I also had private class on Monday which was more of a chit chat than a proper class but was okay. In the evening there was some social drinks and ended up hanging with the same people from Sunday while getting to know the others. I am pleased to say everyone was chill – it was not “Bros” and Bully Bois Antigua revisited. Rest of Monday is uneventful.

Tuesday is a morning or more classes same subject as before working on the past tenses. After this wraps up we have a free afternoon until a Salsa and Bachata class in the evening which was fun but somewhat difficult to follow. No biggie we had fun and that’s what mattered.

Wednesday was more of the same classes wise and then Christmas Eve. Had to go grocery shopping for Christmas day which was Thursday. I will cover Christmas on a separate post.