Spanish Lessons

It is Friday night and we just finished our first of 2 weeks of Spanish lessons here in Canoa. Our morning lesson begins at 9am just after desayuno and lasts until 11. We break for lunch and take 2 more hours of class from 3-5pm when cena begins. Meals are served in the common room and we get what is served, just like summer camp - which has been good simple food. Our classes have progressed rather quickly and we have homework every day to keep up. The girls share a teacher, Maria, a university student who lives in the next town and catches the bus here in the morning, leaves for lunch and returns by bus in the afternoon. The girls like her alot. Debby and I share another teacher Jaime, the father of the family that runs this hotel/school. Classes are taught in a small classroom on the property here of about 10 rooms right on the beach. We are the only guests that are not friends of the family and the only gringos taking lessons. When not in class we are studying, walking on the beach, eating, playing ping-pong and hanging out (no TV). This place is about 2 kilometers from Canoa so it is quiet with not much to do which keeps us a little more focused on the lessons. The weather has been cool and cloudy since we arived, keeping us out of the ocean mostly. There was a break on Wednesday during lunch and the girls and I did get some time in the waves boogie boarding!