El Maestro

So it’s all organised, we are all going to learn Spanish. Come September you may see that our post will transform from poorly typed; spelt and grammatically incorrect English, to poorly typed; spelt and grammatically incorrect Spanish... Ah the Joy!
So how did I manage to find such a teacher? That’s a secret. Well, not actually it's just boring. So anyway this dude is apparently from Argentina and speaks fluent Spanish. He has no real credentials and that’s because I haven’t bothered to check. I am seeing it as a “Verimark” trial. If we haven’t learnt a thing in 30 days, I will demand that money back guarantee.
The real question anyway is does he know what he is in for?

Scenario 1:
Karlos might kill him with his version of Spanish food (you see we will require learning to speak conversationally, so the thinking is to talk Spanish over dinner etc). So even though Karlos cooks like Jamie O and if only Karlos had thought of the lisp first he would have been twice as famous. It could turn out to be a repeat of the Jamie does Italy show (watch it and you’ll get the joke).

Scenario 2:
As the energetic, hard to sit still type of person that I am. This will bring the teacher another challenge. After 10 minutes the conversation may turn south (meaning back to English) or I’ll get bored and walk out. Even worse I could force him into one of those ‘roll’ play scenario’s where we want to learn to shout Spanish Banter on a soccer field and force ‘Teacher’ to be the goalie, where we shout Spanish nasty’s while conducting penalty shootouts...The teacher being the target. This could send him running albeit slowly back to the train station.

Scenario 3:
Warr will get fed up with ‘Teacher’ and decide that he is no longer interested in being taught by the little swine. He will subsequently head off to Exclusive books and Purchase the BBC Language Books and DVD’s on Spanish, and end up speaking better than all of us anyway.

So to ‘Teacher’ we wish you all the luck!