It rained all night and continued to rain all day. Poor old
Brett had to force himself to go over to the damp, dark gym/studio to carry on
with his rendering. By lunchtime he had finished the studio; so he’s only got
the high part of the gym left to do.
I stayed behind in the camper to do my Portuguese homework;
we have to learn five new verbs and ten new nouns and then put them into
sentences. I made mine pertinent to me by looking up all the verbs relating to
gardening - cultivar (to grow), colher (to pick), plantar (to plant), semear
(to sow) and regar (to water); the nouns I chose were also gardening related –
mangericão
(basil), salsa (parsley), tomilho (thyme), hortelã (mint), erva (herb), culinária
(culinary), medicinal (medicinal – obviously!) fava (broad beans, as in
‘Silence of the Lambs’), ervilha (pea) and semente (seed). Unfortunately I have
no idea whether these verbs are regular or irregular so I’m just guessing at
how to conjugate them (a few weeks ago I didn’t even know what conjugate meant,
so I’m actually learning English too). And I really, really, hope I don’t have
to read any of my sentences out loud, at class tomorrow, as I find the pronunciation
so hard – but of course that’s how you learn. I have to force myself not to let
Brett do all the talking when we go into shops; he’s really getting the hang of
the language.
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