why??

The good thing about the buses here is that they will pick you up and drop you off within a few feet of anywhere you want to be. The bad thing about the buses is that they might start accelerating while you are transitioning from ground to bus or vice versa.
I hate my new spanish class. My former teacher was perfect and adorable and pretty strict about keeping us on target. We had constant practice, constant conversation. I learned so much in that class. My current teacher is pregnant in kind of a disgusting way. I know that is pretty uncharitable to express, but she´s always hiking her pants up under her belly and it grosses me out. Also, the class is 3 times the size of the former. (9 or 10 students instead of 3.) But she is also way more more casual than my first teacher. I feel like she is teaching us spanish in this very casual, optional way. But we are in a spanish-speaking country, and I think there should be more urgency in getting students to the point of being able to express themselves. For example, we spent almost the entire two hours today discussing vegetables. I don´t care! I mean, I kind of do, but it would be way more helpful to learn verb conjugations than to be able to write a shopping list. People here are very friendly-- there´s always ¿como se dice . . . ? and pointing.
Also, I kind of want to kill some of the people in my class. But mostly my teacher. Betsy said I should ask her to be better at her job. HA ha ha. I love you, Betsy.
My deep thought for the day-- classrooms are like democracy. It is a system that theoretically could bring everyone up to the highest level (what´s that phrase-- a rising tide raises all boats? or something, even though that refers to economics) but inevitably brings everyone down to the lowest common denominator.