SPANISH CLASSES
By Nora Coryell
Dec 2008: A new Medical Spanish class will be starting at the hospital in January 2009. It is for those with some knowledge of Spanish, not necessarily extensive, and is a good chance to practice, whether your first language is English OR Spanish. Some Spanish speakers will also participate! The Medical Spanish will be on Wednesdays at 3:15pm, but if you want to go and can't do it then, let me know. We really want to get this class going on a regular basis. The Beginning Medical Spanish is at 5:30.
Beginners classes will be Tuesdays. New beginners should call Nora Coryell ASAP at 223-3322 as a new class is forming. There will be at least two additional beginning classes that started earlier this year. The Intermediate class is on Ch. 36 of 'Spanish Made Simple' and will start Jan 7, 2009 at 4:30pm. Advanced students should let me know if they want a class in the book Advanced Spanish Grammar. The cost will be the same, $45 in advance or $50 on the first day of class and private lessons are $25 per hour. There will be no increases in these prices during the economic crisis and there are also low-cost half hour private sessions at a series price for those who need them.
Hope to see you at the Posada at the casino (4:00 Sunday) Dec 21, and there is also a posada at Jose's on Monday, Dec 22. Call me for details for that one (223-3322). Amador County Spanish students are meeting on January 3, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. in the home of Nancy Moore for a Patscuaro party near Sutter Hill to discuss a recent visit by students and instructor Nora Coryell to Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacan, in Mexico for the Day of the Dead celebration. There will be photos, crafts from the region, and will include Sopa Tarascan, beef, chicken and maybe pork tamales, La Rosca para Dia de los Reyes OR pan dulce con cafe o chocolate ($5). If you don't like limonada (limeade) you can bring your own cold drink. The typical celebration for Day of the Dead will be explained, and travel information provided for the area. Photos from last year's Copper Canyon trip will also be shown. All are welcome, space permitting. If it's storming then, it will be postponed. If you want to go to the market in Lodi before with me, call. Call if you want to attend at 223-3322. FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PROSPERO ANO NUEVO
Quiubo, Amigos - Adam and Ruth Gottstein are giving us a nice DISCOUNT on the brand new, hot off the press book on COIT TOWER. So many of us have gone there the past few years and enjoyed the murals, especially the one with Ruth in it, and we've been waiting for this book to be finished. What a great Christmas present, and addition to our history/art libraries. Call Adam at 296-7989 and ask for the "Nora special" which is $25. total including shipping, a $38. value. ( If you should be on the active student list OR if you want classes during the rest of this year call me at 223-3322. )
If you want a class on SATURDAYS (I don't teach weekends), multilingual realtor Elke Duffy may be starting one soon. She also teaches French and German too, sometimes. The recreation department is also considering running Spanish classes again, Tracy tells me. They are at 223-6349 and Elke can be reached at elke@elkeduffy.com
TAMALEADA! 2007
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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