Saturday, February 23, 2008

The Perfect Foursome...I mean Support Group

The Struggling Linguists Support Group was founded the other day on the first tee of Los Lagos Golf Club.


After weeks of linguistic pressure, stress, deadlines, and mild torture, my classmates and I decided to take matters into our own hands, by starting a multi-purpose group to release the tension...think of it as an Anger Management group. Our main purpose was to put as much "English" on the ball as possible (pun intended).


(R to L:) David Flinck, Frank Epley, John Lopez, & John Spink)



Just like in our Spanish classes, some excel faster than others in different aspects of the game.
The finals scores were a 102, 101, 92, and an 81.
Now if our grammar test scores were only that high!





Unfortunately, our group won't be able to meet again until Easter break, since the stress, deadlines, and mild torture of classes starts up tomorrow. We will only be able to daydream in class about the fun we had on the course...up until our professor interrupts our thoughts with the following question...

"________, will you read the following sentences in Spanish and translate them with the past, present, and future tense?"

Back to reality!

2 comments:

Stephanie said...

Glad you got a temporary reprieve, at least! Pedro wants to know what happened to the imperfect and subjunctive tenses??

David and Kristi Flinck said...

Pedro, the imperfect and subjunctive tenses??

We are not even halfway through our first semester...we haven't covered the imperfect and subjunctive tenses.