Technical Difficulties

Hah, I have a post saved as a draft saying that I´m planning on switching all my blogging to Vlogging (video blogs) but of course, as soon as I had that written the flip video software won´t open, and everything goes slow when it does, and it takes me forever to get stuff onto here! I guess word blogging will have to do for now. I haven´t tried connecting my regular camera yet, figuring out foriegn technology is a lot of work!
Doing everything is Spanish is EXTREMELY hard. It´s quite strange for me to be the quite one in the corner, especially since I don´t even understand enough to interject (usually, there have been maybe 3 times so far when I have been able to) like the people who are actually just shy! When people speak to me, I understand maybe half of what they say (if they speak slowly). I´m studying, but it doesn´t feel like i´m making any progress! AAaaah. I know I am though, because I can at least make out words, and sometimes even figure out which part of the sentence I don´t know and look it up later and learn it, It´s tough being constantly confused though. In addition, everyone seems to be on one extreme or the other about my language ability (except for my host parents, they have been extremely wonderful about speaking slowly, repeating things, using motions, and clarifying with other words) they either think that I don´t know any Spanish at all, and are SHOCKED when I respond to the question they ask to Juan about whether I understand lol. Others decide that even though I don´t speak much, it must be because I´m shy (hah :D) so they speak just as fast as they do with everyone else, and I smile and try to follow along as best I can.
It was pretty entertaining yesterday, Juan and I were at his Grandpa´s house, and his Grandpa began showing me his house and speaking rapidily about everything, through everyroom. And I bascially understood nothing (though it was cool to see another Spanish house!), afterwards when I was just with Juan again I nearly fell over laughing because it was such a strange experience! I´ve found that Loretto´s aunt (who lives next door with Juan´s other grandpa, who is in the hospital right now because he had a retena transplant, he should be out on Monday though, and hopefully he´ll be able to see!) speaks slowly enough that I can usually understand most of what she´s saying. It works out well because she likes the attention, and I like actually being able to speak in Spanish!

That´s all for now, Take care everyone!
Molly
oooOOoo, one more side note, the dollar has incread in value...YAHOO The exchange rate was at 1.39 dollar for a euro yesterday!