Another Week Over Already

It's hard to believe that we've been in Antigua for almost 4 weeks already - and have been studying for 3 weeks already. Seems like I should be a fluent speaker of the Spanish language by now, right? Not!
We've spent a lot of time studying this week. I think that Gene is making some real progress. He says that he is still waiting for the "light bulb to go on in his brain," but I see things sinking in that just didn't stick with him before. As for me, I am starting to get familiar enough with certain words, phrases and concepts that they are becoming natural to me now. But I still seem to have a huge "CRS disease" (can't remember shit) problem. I rarely understand everything that is said to me and I always speak haltingly while trying to put ny thoughts together. I get more frustrated than Gene does, I think. Chiqui and I do a lot of just plain talkiing. I am determined to improve my conversation skills, but there are times when I think I was able to speak more 4 years ago than I can now. Good thing I am a very patient person, huh?