Day 382

How long do you think that a person should be given to learn the language when they immigrate before there should be some sort of penalty? If you move to a new place, you should be willing to learn the language. I don't know how long it takes to learn a language, but it seems like 20 years should be long enough. By this point, you should also lose at least part of the thick Spanish accent so that Americans can understand what you are talking about. Dr. Castro did an excellent chapel presentation today, but if I hadn't had a transcript of exactly what he was saying, there is no way that I would have taken anything away from it. Some of the words he used I tried to sound out and see if his pronunciation was more appropriate.

Dess-i-fur = Dee-sci-fur = Decipher

But maybe it is just me. I have always struggled with understanding anyone with any type of accent. I hope that I don't have to take any classes with him because I would probably miss a lot of the teaching.

The dogs' parents are supposed to return tonight, so it was the last time to feed them. I will miss seeing them daily, but I will not miss driving off campus in a truck with no heater when the outside temperature is less than 40. Aside from the cut and huge bruise on my leg, I would say they were well behaved; I only broke up one fight.

Tomorrow doesn't have any work due, so I did some random homework that isn't due until April I think. The other semi fun thing was creating a service invoice for my environmental science lab. I like the idea of charging someone $75 for a single hour of work! Current pay grade = $8.25/hr
That's so low that it's not even listed on Wikipedia's Pay Grade Scale Bah!