making progress

Today has been a great day. After yesterdays weather fiasco today it was sunshine all over the place. School has been great, finally I am getting the feeling that we have built some structure and all I am missing are the words (that's why I will keep it short and go home to practice ...)

After school I went home to sleep a bit and headed back to the city for the surf lesson at 5. The surf course is now fully booked - there are two full courses running more or less in parallel. My new instructor is called Josecho and speaks mostly Spanish. He is much stricter also than the other one - Iker - as he did not allow us to take waves before showing him that we can duck a wave in a secure manner. So we mostly spent the class today paddling around so that when I finally managed to take a wave I did not have the energy to stand up - but I was kneeling for some seconds!!!! So I am very sure that one day I will manage to actually stand on the board for more than a nanosecond. Actually if everything goes according to plan, tomorrow could be the day.

I am also progressing with my Spanish. After the surfing lesson I bought a pair of shoes utilizing only my spanish skills (asking if they have half a size bigger, then asking for the other of the pair and the prize, if I can pay by credit card, etc) - so I am very proud of myself and also motivated to go home and practice, practice and practice.

The only thing missing here is a nice way of getting the pictures from my camera to the internet so I don't have to write so much and can show things with pictures.

AAAAAnyway - I am now going home to do my homework (remember - I am still a Streber) so that's it for today. Please keep me updated on the Frankfurt front by either leaving a comment or dropping me an email or an SMS at my espanish mobile...

Hasta luego!