Journey to be bilingual

Journey to be bilingual

Hello, I am Katie and this is my first ever blog. In this blog I will be posting my journey to becoming bilingual. I am trying to learn Spanish over the course of two years. I plan on getting my basics mastered now (numbers, colors, months, etc.) before high school. Right now, it is July 27, 2012. I start eighth grade on August 9, 2012. In the course of my eighth grade year, I plan to keep a 4.0 GPA (straight A's.), have time for my tumbling & cheer leading, having a -small- social life (I'm shy and only have a handful of friends anyway), stay healthy, and eat right all while learning Spanish. It's a lot, I admit. But, honestly, straight A's shouldn't be too hard (My school was the second-to-last best school in the state. Basically, it sucks). Tumbling & cheer leading is only 3 days a week. Eating right will probably be the hardest, haha! I text Abby all the time, she won't be in my family though. (Family = my school splits each grade into 2 and calls the separate groups 'families'. Underwear family has Mr.4, Mrs.7, Mr.836, and Mrs.69. Potato family has Mrs.90210, Mr.389636, Mr.385638756, and Mr.386289765. But they have a chance of having the same reading, 8th period, art/gym/music/cooking class together. Example: Katie and Abby are in the 8th grade. Katie is in the 'Potato' family. Abby is in the 'Underwear' family. (It's basically too make us make new friends. Which sucks, because I'm not a people person. Except on the internet. I like my internet friends.)) I have an app on my iPhone that helps me learn some Spanish words, but we're not allowed to take phones to school, so I'll have to make notes on them, so I can take them to school and study them in my free time. And in ninth grade, I can take a Spanish class to help even more and hopefully I'll be speaking fluent Spanish before Sophmore year!