{"id":217,"date":"2016-04-24T23:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pxl8.es\/?p=217"},"modified":"2017-05-19T20:47:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T03:47:14","slug":"spanish-language-school-week-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/2016\/04\/24\/spanish-language-school-week-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Language School &#8211; Week Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new students this week, but otherwise it was business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Week three covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>more past tense! additional practice with pret\u00e9rito perfecto and the introduction of pret\u00e9rito indefinido<\/li>\n<li>pronouns for direct and indirect objects<\/li>\n<li>new vocabulary: crimes, body parts, and animals (hmm&#8230; sounds like the setup for an episode of CSI)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In comparison to the previous two weeks, I\u00a0can tell that my progress is becoming less dramatic week over week. This makes sense and is not a complaint with the school or myself;\u00a0I can pick up on much more of the actual meaning of sentences than I could after the first week! I&#8217;m reaching a point where I feel like I need practice more than additional grammatical structures, so\u00a0I think heading out into the world (well, Spain) at the end of next week is quite timely.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday we had a &#8220;field trip&#8221; to the pedestrian boulevard along Avenida de la Constituci\u00f3n. Each student had looked up a particular &#8220;important&#8221; person from Granada, and as we came upon their statue, the student had to describe (in Spanish) who they were, some basic biographical information, and why they were important to Granada.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_218\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 235px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/2016\/04\/24\/spanish-language-school-week-three\/img_1107\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-218\" src=\"http:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1107-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Head\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1107-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1107-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1107-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1107.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">The giant head of Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez de C\u00f3rdoba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_219\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 235px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/2016\/04\/24\/spanish-language-school-week-three\/img_1110\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-219\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219\" src=\"http:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1110-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1110-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1110-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1110-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1110.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Poet and playwright Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the activities this week was an &#8220;International Dinner&#8221; where students were encouraged to bring a &#8220;typical dish from your home country&#8221; to share. This\u00a0<em>sounds<\/em> easy, but can actually be quite a challenge at every step &#8211; some ingredients can be quite hard to find and the kitchens in the student apartments are generally not well equipped.<\/p>\n<p>I like to make desserts for pot lucks, but wasn&#8217;t able to come up with something that I could make without an oven AND find all the ingredients for. In the end I fell back on the most American of American foods, the lowly PB&amp;J. (And a bottle of &#8220;organic&#8221; wine.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_221\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-221 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1118-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Everything wrong with America but in Spain\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1118-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1118-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1118.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Everything wrong with America but in Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_222\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/2016\/04\/24\/spanish-language-school-week-three\/img_1119\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-222\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1119-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Cena Internacional\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1119-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1119-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1119-1024x629.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1119-600x368.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1119.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">A selection of dishes from the International Dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new students this week, but otherwise it was business as usual. Week three covered: more past tense! additional practice with pret\u00e9rito perfecto and the introduction of pret\u00e9rito indefinido pronouns for direct and indirect objects new vocabulary: crimes, body parts, and animals (hmm&#8230; sounds like the setup for an episode of CSI) In comparison to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,9,33,10,8],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travelogue","tag-andalucia","tag-granada","tag-grand-european-adventure","tag-language-school","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pxl8.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}