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..

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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.

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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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