habla espanol?

these past two days have been the most challenging at work. we got two new workers in - brothers, and they both speak spanish. and ONLY spanish. do any of the guys here in the office speak spanish? absolutely not. leaving me. and although i should be fluent with the mass amount of spanish i took in hs and through college, i quickly learned that when you don't use it - you lose it. so here was the challenge laid before me - get both of them thru 4 pages of paperwork, explain to them how their time keys work, explain how payroll works, and get them their equipment.

so it's been good and bad. good bc i love spanish - probably why i took so much of it in school. the ability to speak a different language is so cool to me and spanish was fairly easy for me to pick up for some reason so i really enjoyed it. so it's definitely been fun to try and communicate with them. the bad part is realizing how rusty my spanish is and thinking of how much of those classes i took was not retained. i can't imagine what some of the sentences i said actually translated as...and who knows how many times i was making up words by just "spanish-izing" them. adding "el" in front or adding random letters to the end and making it sound spanishy. doesn't really work. i got lots of confused looks but they were both pretty good sports and found it quite entertaining to say the least.

and in the end, everything got done to a somewhat successful degree and it was more than anyone else could have done. so maybe that's what i can do with all my spare time...take some online spanish courses.

but for now...im going to watch grey's anatomy from last nite. finally a new episode!

have a great weekend everyone. looks like its going to be rainy, gross, and cold. be safe!