Class is much more involved this week. Yesterday and today we started working on verbs in the present tense, reflexives, and phrases about time. Our homework is also getting more involved. Tonight we had to write an interview with questions that used what we've learned this week. Brian suggested that we do 15 of each...which took us about an hour...Brian owes us another lunch. :) (kidding!) We really need to study more...but instead...we're blogging...
And making hotel reservations!! We are really getting excited about our upcoming trip to Copan. Today we made reservations at the Hotel Posada Real de Copan. We are indebted to St. Alban's Church for telling us about this hotel. They stayed there this past weekend and suggested that we mention them and Our Little Roses when we called to make reservations...and they saved us about $75 a night on the triple room we booked. Score!!
Before we actually made reservations at Posada Real we contacted 4 other hotels. Loren made the calls...and even spoke Spanish! It was empowering.
The best part about the phone calls was when Loren was actually making the reservation at Posada Real. The man on the phone was very nice and spoke English very well...except when Loren was messing him up with her attempts at Spanglish (she couldn't remember what language she should be speaking...a casualty of an immersion...Robin has almost forgotten English altogether...she needs to be more better at it). An example:
Loren: "My email address is l-h-a-g-u-e@v-t-s.e-d-u"
Nice hotel guy: "Ok, I'm going to spell it back to you. L as in lake, H as in hello, A as in Apple, G as in Gatorade, U as in university, E as in enjoy. Is that part right?"
Loren: "Yes" *as she giggles about the very inventive new name he has come up with for her*
Nice hotel guy: "Ok. The next part is V C S"
Loren: "No, V T S"
Nice hotel guy: "Oh, ok, T?"
Loren: "Si"
Nice hotel guy: "Ah..V C S"
Loren: "No, no, T"
Nice hotel guy: "...T?"
Loren: "Si."
Nice hotel guy: "What??"
Loren: "OH! no...not C...I mean Si, as in yes...it's the letter T"
Nice hotel guy: "Um...sure...T"
The best part was, after all that trouble with names and such, his name was Bismark. We love it. We also think the fact that he came up with Gatorade as the G in Loren's last name is a rather auspicious sign.
Anyway, while Loren was making the reservation, Robin was so excited at her triumph that she jumped around the room like a maniac. She needs to get out more.
We're about to have a thunderstorm here...let's hope we don't have to make use of the magic toilet again.
Hasta luego!
4 comments:
Robin - it's good to see you have your glasses off :)
I think you should bring the magic toilet back to VTS and see what it does for cell phone reception.
I had thought that I would get in better shape this summer during mid-Atlantic. That is not happening, but the best ab workout I have is reading your blog. My sides absolutely ache each time. You are my fitness website!! Si.
Sven
BRILLIANT! I love this hotel guy! I am also convinced you two need to talk to Beth and Betsy about how to add videos to this thing....I would have appreciated a visual of Robin running around like a maniac!:O)
Are we going to I-16?
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