And Now, For My Next Trick…

I’m sure my vast reading audience is wondering what I am doing now. The current plan is to attend a Spanish language school in Spain. Why Spanish? Mainly for travel reasons. Knowing some would be useful in Spain, South America, and Mexico (and southern California). But truthfully, the real reason is that one of my pet peeves is when two people will make little side comments to each other in a different language right in front of you. My dream is to be able to catch someone making a snide statement and call them on it. Is this a rather petty and bitter dream? Well yes, but I am a petty and bitter person. Of course, this trick doesn’t work if you look like you might speak the language in question. For example, it’s not so surprising if the Asian guy speaks an Asian language (yes, I’m lumping all Asians into one category. All look same. Bite me). Its a lot better to be the White guy who speaks fluent Chinese.

This should be quite the challenge since frankly, I am absolutely terrible at picking up foreign languages. I’m no good at memorizing things. In Japanese class, I would immediately forget everything as soon as I finished taking the test.

There appear to be no shortage of adult language schools in Spain. I am dearly hoping that the school I have registered at is reputable and that I don’t end up being sold into porn (Este ‘estudiante’ tiene una boca bonita…)

Here’s my itinerary for the stalkers out there:

Jan 7 - Jan 27: Tenerife

Jan 28 - Feb 17: Granada

Feb 18 - Mar 17: Barcelona

Mar 17 - Mar 25: Meeting a buddy in Italy (Rome, Florence, ?)