Comments on: Spanish Memories

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:15:21 +0000

The only thing I remember about 1st year spanish was Jon Carlson telling Mrs. Bugni that he wanted to sleep with her every time she called on him and her going “JUAN CARLOS!!!”…

but then what about those fabulous days that she made food for us…esta muy bueno

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:11:09 +0000

I took 2 years of spanish and worked with some mexicans for about a year. Most of what I remember are the bad words from the mexicans I worked with go figure…

By: AndrewE

AndrewE — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:53:07 +0000

Great post! I never took Spanish in school, my fate was German becasue someone once told me it was closer to English…’I pity the fool’

Nevertheless, I have similar memories, cunning classroom ploys and catchphrases that would get me out of the teacher’s line of fire.

10 years later and I was teaching English to kids in Tokyo. This time I was behind the trigger, metaphorically speaking of course, and I can now honestly say that I feel deep regret for all the mayhem I caused as a youth in the name of being ‘cool’, becasue to be the teacher on the receiving end is no joy I can tell you :(

Still, gotta love those big penis drawings on the blackboard!

By: solo

solo — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:11:14 +0000

thanks for taking it easy on me la madre de centaur. i know you could’ve mentioned how loud and obnoxious i was. of course that did make me popular.

By: Bailes

Bailes — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:35:09 +0000

You know, I never had this infamous teacher, and it bummed me out so much that I would skip other classes and go and sit in on her classes. Her being the kind and generous teacher that she was (actually it was just her being oblivious to everything) she would treat me just like her other students and give me pesos for doing absolutely nothing. What a gal. I was actually only there to bum chews from seguel and visit with dennis and nick. I wouldn’t be surprised if I was actually in her gradebook by the end of the quarter.

By: The Centaur

The Centaur — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:13:44 +0000

Half? As in 50%? No way it's that high. It's been awile, but I'm still pretty buen when it comes to hablaring in espanol. Checkmate.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:54:48 +0000

Nice post. I love the fact that half of your translations (for the readers) aren’t correct. Brilliant.

By: Krusty

Krusty — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:53:55 +0000

My best memory from spanish is from my first year of spanish. I sat next to Dubber. We got a homework assignment returned to us. He got an A with a smiley face on his paper. The only thing is that it was his biology homework in english and labeled biology paper. Ahh the quality of an EHS education.

By: la madre de Centaur (alias Thomas Manchild)

la madre de Centaur (alias Thomas Manchild) — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:29:38 +0000

Muy bueno, mi hijo. Imagine how dificil it was for una madre to have siete anos of Espanol and have a son who no habla espanol muy bien!

I remember coming to visit your high school Spanish class one day when I was “in the neighborhood”, and saw for myself why that teacher had a breakdown. When Solo mispronounced (read “butchered”) every Spanish word, the teacher would then say it correctly, expecting him to repeat the correct pronunciation. Solo would always answer the same way…”Whatever..” Teachers love that. I’m so glad he kept up the piano lessons; he was never going to make it as a translator.

By: solo

solo — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:36:08 +0000

somehow everybody remembers my infamous dry eraser drawings. i believe i composed 2 or 3 drawings being that it was a series. maybe i should’ve thought of my future a little wiser. now everybody speaks spanish to me, and i can only respond with, “no hablo mexican,” sorry.