Una clase a UNIFE

  Today in class we went back to a topic I know and love, the conditional tense. Though this time we started using a little more complicated version. We learned when to use the conditional when expressing a recommendation. It doesn't always translate too well into English but I did learn a few new phrases in Spanish today that may be helpful because of it. For "yo que tu" means "if I were you" without having to use a verb or "si". It was a little different but easy enough to pick up. IN culture class with Romeo we talked about the network of roads the Incans created. They had roads running from Ecuador to Argentina all along the Andes mountains. What was most impressive was the bridges they were able to make to make the road continuous. They had small stone ones made of one large slab of rock and other long ones made of grasses woven together to make one strong hanging rope bridge essentially. We even got to see a video of present day citizens remaking the bridge it was amazing to watch how they were able to weave the so tightly to make something so strong.
    After classes I got another delicious pollo a la brasa sandwich as was recommended by my teacher Andres but then it was back on the bus to UNIFE. Today we got to experience an actual class at the university. We had the choice between Literatura and Castellano Grammar. I chose the grammar class and found it to be a good choice. I wasn't able to understand all the words because this was an actual class for the students at UNIFE that we were sitting in on but I got the jist of it. We learned about how both English and Castellano words have Latin roots and the professor showed us how each language took different parts from the Latin word. For example school in latin is schola which looks both like "school" and "escuela" which is school in both English and Spanish/Castellano. It was a pretty interesting class that I enjoyed a lot. After the class we started our group presentations. Basically how they went was the students in the Dialogue group would present the information in Spanish and then the students from UNIFE would translate that back into Eniglish. All of the presentations were great and very informative. Now I know that Peruvian Independence Day is July 28th specifically in the year 1821.
Also on a side note last night after wrting my blog I went to Manolo's a cafe here in Lima with some friends and had the most delicious churros con chocolate which is more of  Spanish food but they were so good I wanted to show you.