Al Principio- At the Beginning

 "You're going to be the next Senora Clark."  That was a phrase I would hear through most of my high school career.  I took easily to the Spanish language after not having much interaction or exposure to it.  It clicked in my head.  I am not Math minded and definitely was not as a kid but somehow, Spanish was logical to me.  The conjugations made sense and I followed the logic of the grammar rules easily.  I'm a bit of an enigma in that basic Math concepts elude me but the mathematical process of employing gender rules of agreement and conjugation of verbs in all tenses is something I could do in my sleep.  It took some time to learn the vocabulary but even that was not a huge struggle.  I suppose as my classmates sat in our Spanish 1 class and I was rattling off phrases like it was nothing probably did come across as weird.  I loved the sound of the language and how different it was from English.  I will say that my English was and still is pretty good.  I was a strong student of the English language and prided myself on my elocution and writing.  But it was not my passion!!  

As the years went on I developed an ear for the language.  I was able to mimic my teacher and the voices on the listening activities.  Fluency and true proficiency would take time and patience but I got there eventually.   The videos that brought to life the people and culture of this new fascinating language made me love it even more.  I knew in those years that I would continue to study Spanish at the college level but that I would become the "next Senora Clark" was not quite in my purview YET.