1. At the start of each year, picking the right name was muy importante:
2. And learning to ask ¿Puedo ir al baño? was a close second.
3. All the textbooks were really excited that you chose to learn Spanish:
4. The students who already spoke Spanish and were taking the class just for the credit:
5. The first thing you did when you had to use a dictionary was look for the dirtiest word on the page:
6. Online translators only got you so far:
7. Cultural food days meant you didn't have to eat in the cafeteria:
8. You always lost points on essays because you could never figure out how to type the "~":
9. (but that stuff was important):
10. Día de Muertos was also super fun:
11. Trying to figure out which assignment was worth giving up a homework pass was torturous:
12. Nothing compared to the videos:
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13. You always postponed making notecards until the day before the final:
14. Some people thought this was how you "roll your R"
15. The conversation exercises were very different than the conversations you wanted to have in real life:
16. The "Sombrero of Shame" was for those who were tardy, passed notes, or talked in English:
17. When la professora knew you couldn't pronounce "biblioteca" and always made you read sentences that had "biblioteca" in them out loud:
18. Sometimes your Spanish expertise didn't fit into your real life:
19. Everyone took the "floorplan" assignment really seriously:
20. The sheer idea of oral presentations was enough to give us nightmares:
21. BINGO was the only way you could unwind after 20 minutes of struggling to tell someone the time:
22. There wasn't anything that Manu Chao didn't like:
