El final

The end of the Desafío, I kind of miss waking up in the morning, checking my emails and knowing there would be an email with the tarea for the day. I completed my 'final exam' which was to have a call with a native Spanish speaker completely in Spanish, record and share a snippit with the Telegram group. I did fine, I had a little trouble with comprehension but was able to work my way around it, I think 😕. Iris offered to do a practice run first but I wanted to follow the spirit of the exam and keep it impromptu and unscripted. I did alright and I'm pretty proud of the work I've done over the last 90 days. I still have a lot farther to go before I reach my goal. 

I spoke a little longer with Iris about her English studies. She said she'd studied grammar once a week since 2017 with little or no improvement. But in January of this year she started Duolingo events and then added watching TV, movies, listening to music about 3 hours a day and now she says she's stopped translating in her head and can think in English. She even dreamed in English one time. I would love to get to that point. So onward and upward we go!

I end with this clip of El Final Explicado De La Trilogía de Matrix. Partly because it follows with the them of todays post, partly because I can only understand about 25% of this clip so I'm hoping when I come back to it in the future I'll see an improvement but mostly because I love the Matrix trilogy. Go Neo! And good luck to all my fellow compañeros.