Spanish

As my school year comes to an end....I'm losing it.  Seriously!  Yesterday I totally forgot about a Communications presentation until half an hour before class.  Yeah...my presentation sucked.  And I'm a total perfectionist, so this usually doesn't happen!  Then, today, I was walking to the dining center to grab some breakfast, when I remembered I hadn't printed off my Spanish homework!  So I carried my crumbling chocolate chip muffin into the library five minutes before class and frantically tried to pull up my email to print the assignment.  The computer wouldn't load.  I shoved the rest of the muffin in my mouth, effectively getting chocolate everywhere and making the people around me cringe, and clicked desperately on the black computer screen.  "Welcome!" it said.  Well...five minutes later it still said "Welcome!", my class was starting, and my assignment still wasn't printed.  I tried turning on another computer.  Same deal.  Luckily, a classmate had a computer open, and she let me get on.  However, I kept opening her email instead of mine!  Now...when I get frustrated, I really shouldn't be around technology.  I have been tempted to dump computers on the floor many times.  But I restrained myself and finally, five minutes after class had started, I printed my assignment, slipped into class shamefully, and tried to slid quietly into my seat.  Maybe the experience had rattled my brain...because I found myself completely inadequate when it came to speaking, much less understanding, Spanish.  As I tried to explain an article I read about a cruise ship, I kept referring to it as "bota".  That sounds like the word for "boat", right?  It's the word for "boot".  Just figured that out.  No wonder everyone was so confused as I went on and on about the president of Mexico riding in a "bota".