By that I mean meeting someone in person whom you’ve only known online before! Today I met Dr. Kathleen Jobe, an emergency room physician who is in my Cada Día Spanish class. One of the regular practices of the class is to say where you zooming in from and how’s the weather, so we all… Read More Absolutely fantastic!
Yesterday’s homework assignment to create a family tree for my Cada Dia Spanish class led me to investigate the people in my family. As I’ve written before, I come from a very large family — I am the oldest of five children, my mother was also the oldest of five children in her family, and… Read More Music in my family
Back on December 10, 2022, I did a Google search: “Uruguay organists” and the name Cristina Garcia Banegas popped up. I recognized her name from previous American Guild of Organists conventions and luckily found her on Facebook. I knew I was taking a chance, but I contacted her through Facebook Messenger, and was so surprised… Read More Una nueva amiga (A new friend!)
Last night our Spanish teacher, Ignacio “Nacho” Medina, set up an informal get-together at Mercado Ferrando with some of his local students whom we have come to know through Cada Día Spanish: David, Libbie and Hanna. Along with Janice Hayden (and her husband Elliot Quint) and Marsha Walker, all of these people are those whom… Read More Meeting in person for the first time!
After two redeye flights with zero sleep (because of an ear worm of the “Hallelujah Chorus” stuck in my head!), a 12-hour layover in Houston, plus another 9 hour layover in Buenos Aires, we finally arrived in Montevideo. We were met at the airport by our Spanish teacher, Ignacio “Nacho” Medina and went out for… Read More ¡Aquí estamos! Here we are!
My father had it. My mother had it. And I am certainly not the only one of my siblings who has it. “It” is the tendency to lose things, especially when traveling! People probably don’t know that I tend to lose things on my travels. Over the years I’ve lost coats, jackets, glasses, you name… Read More A family trait
One term my late husband used to say before any of our deadlines is “It’s going to be a race to the finish!” On May 12th the plan is that I’ll be getting on the plane to England and Portugal, but what I have to do in the meantime is almost an unending list of… Read More A race to the finish!
(My new companion, C.P.E. Bach!) Since the pandemic, my daily life has started with a 2-1/2 mile walk (during which I listened to Spanish podcasts), 45 minutes of Spanish practice with Duolingo, a one-hour online Spanish class “Cada Dia Spanish”, a 45-minute Zoom conversation in Spanish with Vreni Griffith and/or Cindy Scheinert, two local friends,… Read More My life changed … with one phone call