Spanish with Cati

This Spanish jaunt was not supposed to be all beer and skittles.  Michele and I eased our conscience by claiming we were going to improve our skills in the language.

We were fortunate enough to find an excellent language school in Pollenca - "Idiomas Pollenca".

We were even more fortunate to find that they could provide private lessons with Cati in our apartment in Port de Pollenca.  Here is a picture of us hard at work:

 

Cati is a genius at improvising all sorts of verbal and visual cues so that we could actually converse with her in our pigeon Spanish.  Fortunately she has a great sense of humour.  Michele told Cati about the latest fitness craze in Montreal which involves studios with ballet barres, heated to Bikram Yoga like temperatures.  Quite reasonably, Michele referred to such a studio as a "Barre Caliente".  Cati had to explain to us that in Spanish, "Bar Caliente" was the accepted phrase for a brothel.