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I'm in class with the Terminator - And, Segovia.

An Austrian man named Paul joined my Spanish class this week. For days I have listened to him speak and could not figure out why he sounded so familiar. Then it hit me – He sounds just like Arnold. Imagine trying to understand Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking Spanish. These are the challenges I am facing. Usually, students will come to Eureka-Madrid for a week, maybe two. Very rarely is a student there for months. In fact, I can think of only one other, Masa , my Japanese friend, and he is gone, but has been replaced by a new friend, Tomas. We swapped business cards last week. Mine says “Jamie Wakefield , a description of what I write about, and then www.jamiewakefield.com/ . His says " Tom Mason" and under that – “ Gentleman at Leisure.” So funny. He’s from California, retired, spent three months in Chili about six months ago and now he’s here for three months. We have a beer after class about once a week. I think he used to work for Microsoft but he won’t actually tell me w