CLASSES
By Nora Coryell
Summer Spanish Classes
A private intermediate class on Wednesdays has an opening; so if
you are available around 11:00 and want a class around Chapter 30
in Spanish Made Simple, let me know. There is also a class at the
hospital at 4:30, which is also on Wednesdays that is on Chapter
20. A new advanced class in the new textbook Advanced Spanish
Grammar is also forming for the summer.
There are two beginning classes taking place during the summer at
the hospital on Tuesdays at 4:00 and 5:00. Beginners wanting summer
classes should contact me for placement in one of these or in
another beginning class.
If you are interested in a Spanish class in the Ione area, please
call me as we have been offered a possible location for classes
there. I can be reached by phone at 223-3322. Nora C (POSTED JUNE
26)
Amador County adult Spanish students will be attending intensive
Spanish workshops this summer at the highly acclaimed Baja
California Language College in Ensenada. One group will attend the
program in the end of June and others are considering attending in
the first week of August, which coincides with the annual Fiestas
de la Vendimia, Baja's annual Grape Harvest Festival and the "Nativa
2008 which is the Festival of Traditional Arts of Baja. Crafts,
music, native art and traditional dance are included, along with
the many wine events, which go on for the first two weeks of August
each year. For additional information contact local Spanish teacher
Nora Coryell, 223-3322.
Our trip to San Francisco for the Frida Kahlo exhibit, followed by
dinner at Pachamama is scheduled for the 12th of July. Please
confirm ASAP if you're going. Sixteen of you art aficionados have
expressed interest, and you and your guests are welcome up to 20
(it's a small restaurant). We may also return to Coit Tower for
another look at the murals there, inspired by Diego Rivera,
although those who went last year may prefer to spend more time at
the museum. Also Ruth G. tells me their new book about the murals
is just about complete.
IMPORTANT: PLEASE make your reservation NOW for the Day of the
Dead season in Lake Patzcuaro. I still have a little space left
for some dates at the small condo I've rented there for two weeks
from Oct. 27 to Nov. 10 (before and after DOD). The cost will be
around $45. per day, including breakfast and snacks and maid
service every other day. The best flight is Sacramento to Morelia,
Michoacan on Mexicana, and it's currently $460. I may rent a car,
if so desired, for 4. If you want to go you will need to make your
plans now, if you want to stay with me at the condo call and firm
up your dates and make a small deposit (223-3322). It only holds
4. If you want to stay elsewhere, it is filling up very fast, so
reserve a room now..
Interested in
studying Spanish in Baja California with other Amador language
learners? Amador Spanish students will be attending classes for a
week at the end of June at a popular Spanish school in Ensenada, at
a reduced rate of around $250. each. Residence with a Spanish
speaking family, including meals and travel to school is $30 per
day. Call Nora Coryell for details.
TAMALEADA!
By Nora Coryell
Eighteen women and one
excellent gentleman attended our tamaleada at the gorgeous home of
Beth Anne and Jerry Wallace near Pine Grove. Participants practiced their tamale making skills on
beef, chicken, pork, vegetarian and sweet tamales with pineapple,
nuts and cajeta. Both corn husk and banana leaves were utilized as
wrappers. As you know, tamales are a traditional Christmas season
treat in many places in Latin America and are often eaten on
Christmas Eve, which in Spanish is La Nochebuena (the good night).
Following a tasting of pork tamales with red sauce and chicken
tamales with green sauce, and a short discussion of the historical
influences ( Inca, Maya and Aztec people ) and the wide variety of
tamales and fillings the participants went to work and produced
hundreds of tamales of all shapes and sizes. There is to be a
tamaleada in Calaveras county after I get back from Mexico, and
there was a long waiting list for this one. Those interested in
future tamale workshops, or in other types of Spanish classes can
call me at 223-3322. I leave the 31st.
After the classes this week, there will be no more classes until
the 15th of January, when the beginning class will resume at the
Church of the Nazarene at 6:30. If you're not in that now, and want
to be let me know. The Wed. classes will resume the 23rd and end
the 30th and the other private classes should let me know if they
want to meet the last three weeks in January. Other classes will
start in February. There is interest in a post Christmas lunch on
the 27th, possibly at Jose's. Email me back if you want to come.
The Milagros class is postponed and the trip to Fulsome cancelled.
Feliz Fiestas,! Nora
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