"hay" por "hota"

The breeze blows over this humid place like a tentative friend or a lady of the night, halfway there but also not. I doubt many people have been on such close proximity to bats as I have, but this is where I am the happiest kid around because our night birds trabaja a comer todos los mosquitos.

You will have to excuse the occasional foray into badly placed Spanish aquí, because I am here to aprender that beautiful rolling lenguaje. And this is where I have to pay due credit to the twelve years or so of french classes. Never have I been more well off to learn a language then where I am right now. It would be impossible for me to be where I feel I am on terms of grammar and general comprehension of I didn't have that solid backing of French. There are many similarities in the vocabulary, but more than that it is the way on which we are learning. There are exact parallels to those at-the-time tedious french lessons in these Spanish ones that I would not mind kissing the feet of all the mandatory French education classes around.

(now pause for a moment of manifesto)
If you are a fan of the world, enjoy traveling, want to be one of those European type people and know more than two languages, or be like one of those one-step-ahead citizens of the world and at least know two, or be one of those mysterious and sexy sounding Spanish speakers but it is not offered or you don't know anyone from Guatemala willing to teach you or you are debating courses in high school or you are feeling bent out at your routine mundane job-not-career, I say take French (french also in this instance meaning any language class around, because they are there). Take French and conjugate those hours of verbs and dream and soñar and rever in translations-turned-thoughts and gulp down the verb tenses and surround yourself in the masculine and feminine and subjunctive and conditional and all those nuanced forms of human communication that exist. Take French and take Spanish and explore the world without a translator. Trade your regular sounding life with something foreign and different and new and exciting and piquante and caliente and magnifico and inteligente. Take a chance. Study languages. Feel like a complete beginner and speak like less than a baby and feel how humility kicks you in the ass in a loving sort of way for doing so.
Here in this classroom of communication, schoolyard of sounds, university of unique lifestyles, college of worldly capabilities, here is where you discover a lot more about yourself than you would think. And think you will. Think and uncover and explore and realize. You know so much less than you think you do, but you are so much more capable than you think you are. Believe me on this one.

And this is only the first week.

Hasta luego amigos!

dftba.
-k

PS Feel free to leave comments if you'd like. Clearly I am a fan of communication y conversación and I would love to hear from you. En español or English or whatever it is that you speak. Also feel free to leave me challenges or things you would like to see me do or try or taste while here. Gracias siempre!