Next year I will go to Argentina. I can´t wait to practice my Spanish!! I am by no means bilingual but I am working at it!!! Getting back to the main point of this post, it is difficult to stay motivated to study! Once I start I do work very hard but some days it takes a lot of effort to take out my verb books and memorize random verbs. I need a live Spanish person to push me along. Unfortunately there doesn´t seem to be any Spanish people here in Busan. Believe me I looked. So I rely on corresponding with a person in California through email. I´m afraid I am not advanced enough for him though. I think he´s bored with my simple sentences. Anyway, speaking Spanish is a goal I want to achieve. And like all goals I have to strive and work hard. Sigh.
Somedays, when I am feeling generous I can empathize with my students. I don´t feel like studying. Studying a foreign language takes a lot of time and energy. Both of which I am short of. Ideally I am in the perfect environment to study Korean. Yet I am not doing this. Granted when I first arrived I studied a lot. I know it´s the wrong attitude to take but I am happy with my basic beginner level. I can read signs, ask simple questions and I can count to 100 in both numbering systems. This is quite the accomplishment! All those hours at taekwondo have an added bonus, not only am I striving towards my second degree belt but I am getting a free Korean language each night.
2005-06-25