… and poured full sentences of Castellano out of my mouth! Full sentences! Out of MY mouth! Like mute babies who all of a sudden start talking out of the blue, I started pulling words out of the air to build sensical phrases on the spot. Like a storm, it all just came raining down.
I don’t want to beat this language learning thing like a dead horse, but wow the little victories count for a lot. Last night, the boy’s mom was over for dinner and in one fell swoop I said, “Estoy cansada. Normalmente, no tengo clases los viernes, pero por la huelga de maestras en marzo, tenemos una clase hoy.”
I stopped and looked at the boy, our jaws hanging down to the floor in shock. Did all of that just come out of my mouth, in real time?! I looked around to see if someone else could have said that out loud because that couldn’t have possibly been me, could it?!
We high-fived across the table like it was new year’s eve 1999. You cannot even imagine the elation.
We celebrated with milanesa de pollo delivery and a kilo bucket of ice cream. Reward systems are important. =)
