Stirring the Noggin!
After going through many six-week sessions of conversational Spanish at our senior center, I am still at the pre-school stage when it comes to speaking the language. Our instructor teaches high school Spanish full-time; and then once a week conducts our class. Attendance is a problem at her high school. When students do attend, they are often tired from working at night or from an unstable home environment; and only a few are motivated to learn. In comparison, when she walks into the senior center, we are usually awake, smiling and have finished our homework! As for attendance, not only do we want to be there, we have to pay for each session, so missing a week hurts! In addition to that, it’s hard enough to remember what we’ve learned from week to week when we are present, let alone remembering over a longer period of time. Currently the hour lesson begins with a dialogue between students asking each other a question like, “What did you do over the holiday?” We fum...
