QR Code Fun!

If you know what to do with this code, give it a scan. I'm tracking my user-base by seeing where the scans come from.

Thanks

Patrick

Major life development coming up. I'll keep you all posted.

Bariloche

Looking back, I kind of wish I would have went to Patagonia while I was in Argentina. I was so close to such a magnificent location. However, I'm also happy I didn't go, because it gives me even more reason to go back.

The Most Popular Post

It's really fun to look at my Google Analytics and see how everyone finds my blog. It turns out that an old post, "The Drinks of Argentina" has been the #1 visited page on my blog. Check it out!

In the days to come, I'm going to create a list of all the most popular pages so that you can more easily read the best posts.

Who's Really Fluent?

So I'm going to graduate from college in May. Pretty exciting stuff. However, as I get closer to graduation, something has started to bother me.

I've been working on my resume a lot lately, and in my resume class, under the "languages" section, everyone feels that they can put "Spanish" if they've taken one year of Spanish in college.

I'm sorry but no!

Whenever I'm talking to someone about languages, or I overhear someone in class say they have "Spanish" on their resume, I immediately start talking to them in Spanish. Just plain conversational stuff, nothing difficult. The answer, in English, is always the same, "Oh, I haven't taken Spanish in a couple years, I'm really rusty."

If you get flustered when someone comes up and makes simple conversation with you in Spanish, how in the world can you put that you speak Spanish on your resume. You speak English! Knowing "Hola" "Como estas?" and "Muy bien" does not make you fluent.

Life Update

So I got the urge to write a little update on my life since this past summer, where knowing spanish has gotten me, and some of my thoughts on studying abroad. Stay tuned. Should be up in a day or so.

Anabel is Coming!

I'm not really sure how many people read this blog anymore, but here's the newest update.

Anabel got her tourist visa today and is coming to visit me in Minneapolis next week! I'll be seeing my my sister Holly, who is coming home from El Salvador, for the first time in over a year. We're going on a true family vacation, Mom, Dad, Holly, Lindsay, Adrian (Lindsay's husband), Anabel, and myself, to see my mom's family in northern Minnesota. After that, we're going to head to Chilton, my hometown, and maybe swing through Chicago so Anabel can see the city.

The summer has been going really well and it just keeps getting better.

Patrick