I am sitting at the PACE meeting (no one is here but me) listening to Santana’s Corazon Espinado via Rhapsody, watching the cars go by and the clouds slowly sink into their muted pinks and blues signaling the setting of the sun.

I wanted to type that in Spanish but I am so horribly rusty I’m sure I would have butchered it. In my prime with Spanish, I actually wrote poetry and translated a few poems too – including one of Langston Hughes’ poems which was really cool in Spanish. I’d be hard pressed to do that today although I am TRYING to get my skills back. I say trying because well, I have the cd’s, booklets, etc – it’s just finding the time. I’m immersing myself back into Latin music in the hopes of getting my mind back into that frame. I used to think in spanish while speaking english too. I think I even had a few dreams in spanish as well.

Started school time with the girls this week. So far it’s going ok, but then again, it’s just day two. Charlotte does flashcards, Alli traces her letters. She’s getting pretty good too. Charlotte was a LOT more talkative today and hopefully that’s a sign of more to come because I am really going to get aggressive on her talking. I suspect she knows how to say a lot more than she lets on and I am tired of letting her slide and I am not going to sit back and do nothing. She has a very small spoken vocabulary but is very high functioning receptively. It’s so frustrating!