Acabo de comprobar mis billetes de lotería. Desafortunadamente también tengo que ir a trabajar.
¡Algún día voy a ganar!
Necesito limipiar mi escritorio. No puedo encontrar cualquier cosa. Está muy sucio.
I'm getting back into the swing of things and my routine is becoming fun again.
Reading- I made good progress with
De amor y de sombra this week. I'm still not sure where the story is headed, not unlike
El beso de la mujer araña, but I'm still enjoying it. I have had spells where I look up every unknown word, but I have still been doing quite a bit of extensive reading as well.
I looked on Amazon.com for books that might interest me. I'm ready for another action book. I would prefer books originally written in Spanish, but I haven't found many and the ones I have found don't seem terribly interesting. I found that Amazon has Spanish translations of quite a few Isaac Asimov books. I read his
Foundation series many years ago, and I may give that a shot. My concern is that I remember the books being somewhat confusing. I'd really like to find a good translation of the
John Carter of Mars series. I have read this a number of times. That's a great series until about halfway through when the books become about John Carter's children.
Listening- I watched
Despertar Contigo every night that I was home, including recording a couple of episodes so I wouldn't have to miss two in a row due to my work schedule. There are days where I don't comprehend quite as well. I can still follow the story but I miss details. I haven't gotten totally lost yet, though. I have been tempted to rewind and listen again to the parts that I miss, but I guess as long as I know what's going on that I'm still making progress. I usually watch a few minutes of
Tres Veces Ana, which comes on right after
Despertar Contigo. After an hour of warming up to spoken Spanish my comprehension is pretty good with that show.
Output- I didn't do much output. I know this is something I need to work on. I know I can at least communicate, but I still need the practice. I haven't really messed with HelloTalk since my Mexican buddy quit logging on. I enjoyed chatting with him, but every other conversation I have had on there has been pretty boring. I went back to studying verb conjugations. It's getting better, but I still have to think about it too long. My inner dialogue has been popping back up in my head lately. I often consider writing my language log in Spanish.