I have completed nearly 3 months of study, 11 weeks to be precise, and I must say that looking back at it, it definitely has been worth my while!

I actually have 1 week of 4 hours per day left, but today also was the last school day of 2008 and for me it makes no sense to go back to school for 1 week after a holiday of 2 weeks. Instead I have decided to split that week into 2 separate weeks of conversation classes and I will take them for example at the end of January and February.

Obviously I will fall into some sort of gap as much of my work will take place at home and in school we were basically talking Spanish for a minimum of 4 hours each day, plus all the extra activities. Therefore I think it makes sense to have the two separate weeks to keep up my conversational level of español.

This last day of the year ended with a Navidad (Christmas) lunch where many students brought a dish from their country. We ended up with a pan-European smorgasbord and I of course made “Piet’s famoso pollo con coca cola” as some of the teachers were almost begging for that after having heard form our little dinner parties over the past weeks!