A true test to my education.

My host sister studied in Canada for a semester & worked in New York for six months. Her English is pretty good because of this. At first, I appreciated it because when I couldn't quite think of a word or understand everything in a conversation, she could help me. Now, however, she's fallen into the pattern of talking to me only in English. I know she's just trying to help and make things easier for me but it's gotten rather annoying. I really want to practice my Spanish as much as I can, especially since I now have less than two months left and I feel like I'm no where near where I had hoped I would be. At dinner tonight we had the tv on when yet another political commercial came on. My sister took this opportunity to ask me about voting and elections in the US. I was explaining about voter registration when she asked about the electoral college. All in Spanish. The only time she has talked to me in Spanish for the past couple days was to ask me how the electoral college worked. The electoral college is hard to explain in English to people who are familiar with the American political system and here I was trying to think of the words to explain it in Spanish. Let me tell you, it took a while. All day long she asked me simple questions like "what would you like for lunch?" or "which movie do you want to watch?" in English. The one questions she asks me in Spanish is about the electoral college. Then I mentioned the election in 2000 which just led to even more questions about why we even use the electoral college if votes don't seem to matter. And she asked about why some states seem to matter more than others. Her mom stop listening half way through the explination because it took so long. Sometimes because I was searching for the answer & trying to remember everything I had learned in my government classes and sometimes because I was searching for the words in Spanish. Luckily I paid attention in my US Politics class last semester and she was patient with my Spanish conjugations or it would have been downright impossible to answer!