Monday, January 9, 2012

Spanish with Salas!

My next project is going to be diving into fully learning Spanish. I have taken Spanish all four years of high school and somehow the basics stuck. Then in medical school I had to use it and somehow I am able to communicate with my patients today without the use of a translator. My no means is my Spanish perfect. Actually it is probably disrespectful in I definitely never use the right tense but always start off by telling my patients that its not good Spanish. They are cute and they tell me its fine but that is just because they are sweet souls. BUT I want to get better. And I want to be able to express emotion well. While talking to an attending I worked with at the jail for future prospects...he told me I should look into enhancing my skills so I can use it for a future job. Then I started looking up classes and realized that Rush will pay 90% of the class. I am going with this guy named Christian Salas. I ended up convincing a co resident to take the class with me and we went to our first demo session today. Our first official lesson starts tomorrow! And then I go to Mexico for a week. So here is to a new adventure en una idioma nueva (a new language). We'll see how it goes.

And still no decision on our future life plans. We are confused souls.