so a funny thing's been happening lately.

i've been temporarily helping my office do some telemarketing calls (survey/polling-type calls, not sales thankfully). they're pretty interesting. but what's more interesting is that we conduct them also in spanish. now, i'm not fluent, sadly. but the surveys are scripted and so the language in written out in front of me. and since i can speak the language somewhat well and can make out a bit of what they say, i've been doing a number of these surveys in spanish. it's been great practice for my spanish. especially in the conversational part because that's always been my hardest piece of learning spanish-- i.e. i'm too shy to have a conversation because i never think i know the right words to say. but having the words right in front of me makes it so much easier. i still occasionally get tripped up, but they've been very kind in putting up with my badly-performed spanish. and it's been rather fun to do. it makes me want to take another spanish course again.