llm8167 is in the Middle East realizing her goal of visiting Lebanon!
I just spent a month in Guatemala and the first five days of that taking a week-long class of one-on-one Spanish lessons. Between my three years of high school Spanish (that’s been buried in the attic of my brain) and my Italian skills, I was actually able to be conversant in a language that I thought I didn’t have a hope of speaking now (and didn’t really until the class). Now I’m thinking that with just a little work (maybe a whole summer in Guatemala) I could be pretty decent in Spanish. Maybe I need to bump Spanish to the top of the “languages to be learned” list.

