Our Spanish Years in Review

I'm a sad to say that this is my final blog for our spanish group.  :(  Over the last four years of high school we have learn so much about different subjects and about each other.

Taking a look at Spanish class alone, we have learned a great deal of information.  Our freshman year we came into Spanish knowing different colors and numbers probably up to ten or twenty.  Then we dove into with common everyday conversations.  I felt special being able to understand just a little part of Spanish.  We then learned our first tense... present.  I didn't like it because it was new and really different than our language.  But I got better and got used to the idea of taking off the ending and placing the appropriate ending on for what is needed.  At the end of our first year we touched on the preterite tense.  I started to confuse my endings then even more.  I think back and see how little I knew and how simple it was then and wonder how I thought it was difficult.

Sophomore year of high school we got a new teacher, Senorita Schooly.  We had to get used to her way of teaching first and then we were able to learn a lot of the other tenses.  This year was jammed pack full of information and was the most important year for my Spanish learning experience.

By my junior year of high school, my Spanish class had shrunk... A LOT!  Most people only took two years of Spanish because that is what most colleges call for.  I decided that I wanted to finish off all four years of Spanish because I didn't know exactly what I would be doing as a job or if I would be needing it in the future.

Spanish III and IV both seemed like review years.  We had a lot of projects that helped to teach us to use our Spanish skills.  The most important part to me about Spanish was when we read Don Juan.  I know that this book has taught me to not stress over the little words and go for over all comprehension.

Our fourth year of Spanish we finish off a circle with teaching little kids some words in Spanish.  They now know about as much as we did coming into Spanish I.

I'm really glad that I took four years of Spanish.  I didn't know that it would be this beneficial.  I would definitely recommend to underclassmen to take all four years.  I would never go back and switch this class for any other one.

                               Olivia Heims
                                          ~Angie Heims~