Year Four, Day 184: ¡Hasta Mañana!

¡Hola!

I just discovered how to type a tilde on my cellphone! ñ 😎

And I discovered how to use an online Spanish keyboard. That's how I was able to type ¡Hola!

I am having fun studying Spanish. I enrolled in a free course on Coursera. If you are not familiar with Coursera, you should check it out. Especially if you are an education nerd like me. I never get tired of studying!

https://www.coursera.org/

My beginning Spanish class is through University Of California, Davis. The teacher encourages us to join an online language exchange to practice our skills. I signed up with My Language Exchange https://www.mylanguageexchange.com/. It's free. And I already have a new friend in Lima, Peru!

¡Estoy muy emocionado!

As  usual, I don't have long to blog. I have students at 5:00 p.m.

But I wanted to also mention that I purposely gave myself a cheat day from my intermittent

fasting lifestyle yesterday. And I lived to blog about it!

It was my niece's 23rd birthday. We bought her a cupcake cake and

took her out for pizza.

But I'm back on track today!

Gotta run!

¡Hasta Mañana!

 Love,

Zita

And I must not dash off before sharing today's hooping video!

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