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| Photo Cred: Mary's Phone by stranger Monte Pedroso |
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| Photo Cred: Mary Monte Pedroso |
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| Photo Cred: Mary Monte Pedroso |
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| Photo Cred: Mildred's crappy phone Monte Pedroso |
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| Photo Cred: Mildred's crappy phone Monte Pedroso |
On Monday, April 18th, we celebrated one of our teacher's birthdays by surprising her with a cake. Technically we bought two halves because there wasn't any full cakes available and we couldn't decide on a flavor for anyone. Also, red velvet is very different from chocolate cake. I don't care what you have to say about that, there is a huge difference.
My internship got out early on Monday because not enough people had read the book for this week so they moved the book back to next week, meaning I don't have to read any more book summaries because I did it for this week. Since it got out early, I aprovachar'd the lovely weather and went and watched Melisa and Morgan hammock while I sat on the ground with Steph. We had a grand old time and then Melisa bought me froyo (third day in a row for froyo) since I handed her her purse.
Tuesday was my last day of volunteering and I was in a cranky mood that day. It seemed everyone was though, since class was a cranky experience and everyone at volunteer was cranky too. I had to have someone that actually spoke Gallego in my group this time since no one wanted to listen to the girl that was essentially mute and deaf since she understood nothing they said and couldn't be understood either. One of them told me they had to use the bathroom and was really frustrated when I didn't understand what they were saying until the other worker in the group said it in Spanish so I understood. I just was trying to pass a ball with them, which involves no verbal communication normally but Tuesday they all wanted verbal communication instead of nonverbal.
Wednesday, we thanked Maria for calling us adults and treating us as such. She seemed slightly upset with us for that and started talking to us about how we were adults and just because we couldn't speak Spanish fluently didn't mean we were stupid. We actually had a really long conversation about the fact that we are adults. I think she understands how we feel really well since she's lived in the United States before and I'm sure people treated her like she was a young child because of her verbal skills.
We had a short week, just Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday since the last two days of the week were our Camino days, which will be talked about in the next blog post!
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| Photo Cred: Mary Red Velvet Cake with Cheesecake frosting Some random chocolate cake |
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| Photo Cred: Mary Our class and María, our teacher |
Tuesday was my last day of volunteering and I was in a cranky mood that day. It seemed everyone was though, since class was a cranky experience and everyone at volunteer was cranky too. I had to have someone that actually spoke Gallego in my group this time since no one wanted to listen to the girl that was essentially mute and deaf since she understood nothing they said and couldn't be understood either. One of them told me they had to use the bathroom and was really frustrated when I didn't understand what they were saying until the other worker in the group said it in Spanish so I understood. I just was trying to pass a ball with them, which involves no verbal communication normally but Tuesday they all wanted verbal communication instead of nonverbal.
Wednesday, we thanked Maria for calling us adults and treating us as such. She seemed slightly upset with us for that and started talking to us about how we were adults and just because we couldn't speak Spanish fluently didn't mean we were stupid. We actually had a really long conversation about the fact that we are adults. I think she understands how we feel really well since she's lived in the United States before and I'm sure people treated her like she was a young child because of her verbal skills.
We had a short week, just Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday since the last two days of the week were our Camino days, which will be talked about in the next blog post!
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