Opening Day

If you are a sports fan, you probably know that today is opening day for Major League Baseball (even though the Phillies don't start until tomorrow). Its a new beginning where all the teams feel like they have a chance to win this year. Well, maybe not the Pirates, Royals, and some other teams, but every team starts with the same record of no wins and no losses.

I had a similar feeling this week in studying Spanish. Not the same, but somewhat of a new beginning. After studying and going to class for almost 3 months, my class finally started to study past tense! In the first 2/3 of this trimester, we have studied a lot of different topics in Spanish, but all have been in the present tense.

So, we have expanded our ability to communicate a ton by now being able to use the past tense in a conversation. If you think about many of your regular conversations, you do not say too many things in the present tense. We had to start there to get a solid foundation for our language, but now we are moving forward as we prepare to share the gospel of Jesus Christ in Spanish to the people of La Ceiba, Honduras!