Today was fantastic! We finally had really good weather. So I spent some time at the beach with Daniel and Franci and then later with Marek. The guys drumming in the photo are Italians who played reggaetone and Samba most of the afternoon.Towards night fall some local teenagers came out (some of them were the same ones from breakdancing) and did acrobatic tricks to the music, just for the fun of it. It was largely locals and not too many Americans.
These kids did tons, I mean tons, of crazy tricks, but I only managed to get two good photos, one of a flip and the other of a back flip. I would love to do some of the stuff these guys were doing.
The drums went on until the sun went down. I left once it started to get cool and dark to go home and practice some Spanish with Daniel before we had dinner. I theoretically know something like 15 tenses but I can only conjugate a couple reliably and can´t use most of them correctly.
There are whole modes of tenses, like the subjunctive, that just don´t exist in English so it´s pretty difficult to use them correctly. So, anyway Daniel and I use them practicing with each other but I think I´ve only ever used 4 or 5 tenses in an acutal conversation.
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Looks like you're having a whale of a time... and rubbing it in that you spent a day at the beach in January! Keep the beers & margaritas flowing...
Sweet pics!! None of you in you in your swim trunks though? :-Þ
Actually we do have a subjunctive in English, but no one ever uses it anymore. For instance:
If I were (not was!) him, I'd travel too.
Nobody ever uses the subjunctive and it almost sounds strange when you hear it! In Spanish, as well as many other languages the subjunctive is alive and well...
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