Los flores en el museo The flowers in the museum Salía del sol Sunrise La sala de pantallas The screen room Sutton descrubió el secreto de imperfecto Sutton discovered the secret to imperfecto Disfrutando el BioMuseo Enjoying the BioMuseum La Calavera de una perezoso enorme The skull of a giant sloth El mejor ensalada en el mundo - en serio The best salad in the world - seriously Tartare de Salmon Salmon tartar Sutton aprendido en el BioMuseo Sutton learning in the BioMuseum El mueo arcitectura muy loco The very crazy museum architecture
Today is our final day in Panama, and we can’t and don’t want to believe it is already over. Our last A-Term at POHS has flown by! In honor of this special day, we woke up an extra hour early to watch the sunrise at the Cinta Costera. With tired eyes, we hobbled down the never-ending flights of stairs at La Isabela Suites and then carefully played real-life Crossy Road to dodge the speedy morning traffic. For a place where coffee shops don’t open until 9am, there sure are lots of early risers. While the sky was a little cloudy, it was still beautiful when the sun rose above the clouds and lit up the colorful streets and structures of downtown Panama. The reflection on the ocean was almost blinding, which made “smiling” during Jessica’s photoshoot rather challenging. Turning away from the rippling waves, Casco Viejo from afar looks like one of those picturesque, 4000-piece puzzles. After our morning sightseeing, Josey cooked one final breakfast using the remaind...
This morning, we arrived at class and quickly completed our lesson on preterito imperfecto. This included some practices with listening to stories and filling in the blank with the proper conjugation of verbs. We thought this would be relatively straightforward since we have been working hard to master this tense all week, but there are always some irregularities that catch us off guard. Hector then shared a brief lesson on the difference between muy and mucho. We found that muy normally translates to “very” and mucho translates to “a lot.” Whether or not you use mucho/muchas/mucha/muchos depends on the location of verbs, pronouns, adverbs, and sustentivos (nouns). We did well on the worksheet practice, but the speaking practice is challenging since your mind has to take the time to visualize the sentence. We felt like we were talking like sloths and we hoped our more fluent classmates didn’t doze off too much. The final part of our morning was putting together preterito imperfect...
Josey and Sutton, so impressed by your blogging so far. Insightful and entertaining. The photos are excellente as well!
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