A complaint about a task I took on of my own free will and for which I have nobody to blame but myself.
Friends, staying up every night to recap Alborada is killing me! It's very good practice for my Spanish, and I love the new friends who come to this blog to read the summaries and discuss them in the comment section - but five nights a week is a lot.
I watch the show from 9-10 - or, if I'm out, I watch it on tape when I get home.
For the first few weeks, things went kind of slowly and that was good: when the characters stand around a lot glowering, I can get it all the first time.
But if they're yakking quickly, dropping important plot points like cow pies, I have to rerun the tape and listen again - and I never learned shorthand, so taking notes is a bit slow.
Then I have to write the summaries. I know you're not reading them, because they're ridiculous and you're not watching the show, but it's hard work. Remember that guy who said: "I'm sorry I've written you such a long letter, I didn't have the time to write a shorter one." ? Well, trying to condense a one hour show full of enthusiastic exposition to a readable size is time consuming! I'm exhausted!
The point of all this is that I've had less time to do my other blogging. Sorry.
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by melinama @ 8:00 AM
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Dear Melinama,
What would we do without you?
Please take good care of yourself and get lots of rest. Maybe it would help if you could speak your notes into a tape recorder, that would save you lots of writing.
I'm sure we'll all be praying for you to continue in good health.
Sincerely,
Alice
Melinama: Why don't you share the burden with some of us? I would be willing to do one or two nights a week. I could email the text to you to you and you could put it in your unique style. ;-) You would watch that episode and get the general idea without having to worry about the summary.
My name is Jean and my email is njmotmot@gmail.com
Thanks! I will need some help when I make my upcoming trip to New England (leaving March 3, gone all the following week). Maybe we can set up some replacements...
I wouldn't mind picking up a day or two here and there to help out. I wrote it up the one time and wondered how one person could do it every night, keep up a great site like yours AND have a life outside of the TV and internet!!
I don't always understand everyting but I usually get most of it... just let me know, I'd be happy to help... my email is: staar_liite@yahoo.com
Thanks for volunteering to help out, Ruth.
Que mala suerte! I will be in Mexico from March 2 through 9 so I can't help that week. Let me know if you need help any other time.
Jean
Jean! Are you going to Mexico on a vacation? How fun! I would LOVE to go, never been. I've thought about going to one of the Spanish Language schools they have there but am still looking into it.
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