- 2 weeks ago for my public speaking/acting class, I did a standup comedy routine. 2 and a half minutes. All in Spanish. In front of all Chileans. And it was a hit! I was a little nervous going into it, but everyone in that class is super nice and supportive, they laughed, and I'm (99%) sure they actually found me funny.
- Last week I handed in a 16 page paper/report for Ethnolinguistics, which would be pretty hardcore even in English, so I felt real proud handing it in to my professor in Spanish the other day. If you're curious, I wrote about the blog Feministing, justifying it as a cultural community and subject of an ethnographic study (part one), and then analyzed the comments according to speech act theory and different types of illocutionary force (part two).
- During our trip to Buenos Aires this weekend, while waiting outside a fruit stand, a lady pulled up in her car and asked me if I knew where a certain street was, and I DID. And I told her and she understood me and presumably got there safe and sound. So not only a testament to my Spanish skills, but my ability to orient myself and function in a new, big city too.
And now I will proceed to pat myself on the back ...
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