Lunch with Sara’s family/Carlos Pueblo

Lunch with Sara’s family/Carlos Pueblo

Sara Rodriguez is our beginner Spanish teacher, a young lady from

Mexico, some time with her son coming to the class. I come back to

the community center due to the beginner Japanese class and find this

opportunity to come back again in Spanish learning. I can ask and answer

one or two basic Spanish greeting and that is all. There are at least 6

families in the neighborhood that I can converse with yet I do have the

limitation. She is an excellent teacher and I may have a breakthrough. After

we successful invited Nagamoto family for a lunch, I invited her family for

a lunch after the class and they accepted.

We went to a Chinese buffet restaurant nearby the community center also

on I-10 and I brought a German Rails map to help the conversation during the

lunch. Her husband is a German from a small city south of Koblenz on the Rhine.

I have visited Germany three times mostly in Frankfurt yet one time with the

German Rails pass across the country. I identified most of the cities which I

stayed overnight or came off the train for a day’s visit. He told me that he was

in the German Army and where he had been stationed. I have followed the map

to visited three scenic routes on DB Bahn, Prague, the Czech Republic to Dresden

on the Elbe; Stuttgart to Cologne on the Neckar and the Rhine; Singen to Offenburg

and to Freiburg in the Black Forest and the Danube. After hearing my description,

they felt that they should do some traveling themselves.

I always admire teachers volunteer their efforts to teach like in English for the new

immigrants. Come to think about it, I have missed so much opportunity to learn

several languages in this great nation such as English, Spanish, Japanese, and French

because that I don’t prepare enough and don’t know how to ask. I feel very comfortable

now because I have nothing to bother me and I can talk if I dare to native speakers.

I enjoy very much to listen to different languages and practice some during my traveling

in the world, i.e. on cruises to meet different people even though they all speak in English.

It is fun and easy to get close.

She is going to continue her beginner’s class after this session and so is Nagamoto Sensei

for his beginner’s Japanese. I like to continue these two classes even though I may have

traveling interruption.