This morning we had a new teacher, Hannah, and I haven’t decided if I like her yet. She is a lot young but the classes did seem to fly by. We learned a ton of new verbs which is good because we only knew two or three before. Most of the day we spent talking about our hobbies and things we like to do. Also we learned the words for rarely, sometimes, never, always, etc. So now we can construct more advanced sentences. We did some exercises, played a game where we were going to a party and had to figure out what was acceptable to bring (the things had to have the same letter as our first name), and we sang (our other teacher told the new teacher we liked to but the new teacher didn’t sing with us so it wasn’t as nice as before). During our breaks I hung out with Maria, the Slovak assistant, and the other assistants. I swear I learn more from them than in class and they teach me how to say things so I am becoming more confident in speaking. At first I was really lost; it sounded like everyone was speaking gibberish because I couldn’t tell where one word ended and another began. Now I am getting the hang of it and am actually really sad to be leaving. After class I walked around a little with two girls from my class (we went to a music store and the mall because one girl was looking for luggage). Also, I spoke with a Hungarian girl about Budapest and the logistics of traveling there. Then we had our workshops. Originally I had signed up for the film class but I changed to the signing class because I have started to like sing more since we sang in class everyday and I knew a bunch of people in the class. Another thing that is great is that it helps with pronunciation; forever studying I am! I was very proud of myself though because we had to introduce ourselves and tell what experience we had with singing and I did it all in Slovak! J It was pretty awesome! After the workshop I was going to go home but long story short, I got on the wrong tram and so as I was walking to the other stop I decided to stop at the store and get some food. So I bought a sandwich and drink, ate it in the beautiful town square adjacent to the store and decided just to walk around the city before going back to the school to see the puppet theater. I have really had time to walk around the city much and I was a bit intimidate to tell you the truth but after I got out in the city it was great. I saw a few things and figured out the other few thing I want to see before I leave. It was nice just to walk around but it was in the mid to upper 90s all day.
St. Micheal's Gate
When I was done exploring, I went back to the school and watched this puppet theater. It was pretty funny but I couldn’t really understand what was being said. It was about this snake that ate a bunch of thing and got really sick and a doctor had to figure out what was wrong. The best thing was the theater lady was really interactive and kept pulling people out of the audience for things. By this time I was thoroughly exhausted do I came home, went to the gas station with Autumn, did my homework, showered to remove the layer of sweat, and passed out. Pretty good day, I say!
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