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beatriz!!
I enjoy Spanish class so much more on Wednesdays and Thursdays rather than the first two days of the week. We have two teachers that share the four days, and as much as I like them both, the latter of two just wins the cake. Waking up everyday to go to two hours of Spanish gets quite annoying, but whenever Beatriz comes dancing in, she makes it just a little bit more bearable. Her petite little body ranking in around 5 feet always come bursting through the door with crazy shoes on, mostly high heels. If we ever comment on them, she always clicks her heels together stating she already knows how cute they are. Her short dark “European-trendy” styled hair fits her persona perfectly. So do her snaggled teeth and lip-sticked smile.
“En Espanol, POR FAVOR!” she always snaps back when we start telling stories in English, which is almost always. Yet, she likes to throw in the trendy English words into conversation herself. Beatriz laughs at everything. She mocks everyone’s accents until we get it right. She slurs her “vosotros” conjugations in a Spain-Spanish speaking way to mock their accent. And if someone ever answers in English, she claps at them to show how proud she is that they know how to speak English. Her second favorite comeback is to say that she has no money to pay us for teaching her English, but since our parents already paid her, we should speak Spanish.
Beatriz is such a light-hearted 45 year-old. She fits into my images of the typical Argentine. First of all, she loves to have fun and be goofy. Whenever we play games in class, whoever loses has to do something for punishment, which usually ends up with someone dancing and singing along to the Spice Girls. Second of all, Beatriz LOVES meat. Whenever the class discusses food, which is quite often, Beatriz always throws her arms back in description of how much she loves red meat. She always wants to chow down on a bone. Third of all, Beatriz likes to dance. Just in our last class, we were all standing in a circle singing a new song we had just learned while Beatriz taught us some tango moves. And last but not least, Beatriz is lenient in a laidback way. My class always hopes that the test days fall on Wednesday or Thursday just to get a little help from Beatriz. My best friend basically takes his entire test standing at her desk. And she always lets us postpone homework and quizzes. She has become one of my favorite characters in Buenos Aires. I will always remember little Beatriz in Argentina, and I have my Spanish skills to thank her for.
che boludo en espanol por favor
Nothing grinds my gears quite like waking up to the putrid face of my Profesora de espanol on thursdays and fridays. I won't call her out by name but this women makes me sit through hell on earth for 4 hours every week. Instead of teaching us spanish, she criticizes are lack of understanding of a grammatical theme or of plain old vocabulary. But my teacher on monday and tuesday is the complete opposite. She makes my monday morning appealing especially when I have to speak in spanish for two straight hours in a class of only four people. Learning spanish should be fun and exciting, but if you have a bad professor it simply becomes a chore.
Yes!!!Any teacher who makes
Yes!!!Any teacher who makes you sing and dance to the Spice Girls ranks pretty highly on my list! Although you did not include a picture, I feel like your description gave us a pretty good idea=)I wrote about my Spanish teacher for this entry too, and honestly, I feel like they’re a lot alike; though I’m in Spain, my teacher is actually from Argentina. She’s about the same age and has an amazing amount of energy, which impresses me so much especially on those mornings where the seven of us in my class make quite evident that we would much rather be speaking English.
Love the excitement
It is amazing how an exciting a teacher can make the difference in a long class. My Spanish teacher as well always has amazing energy that makes the class just more bearable. I wish all my teacher had energy in the classroom. It just makes those days, usually Mondays, when there no place you would rather be than class just a little easier. I think it should be mandatory for teachers to teach with energy and excitement (And maybe even a little candy during class). The best teacher I ever had gave us candy every time we got an answer right. I think it is about time that teachers got away from their power points and invested more time in preparing for the energy that they need to bring to class.