Entiendo las reglas

or at least i think i do! today I had 6 hours of private tutoring. I got so burnt out--it turns out that 6 hours with one teacher and one student is a bit long. Tomorrow is my last day and I will only have 5 hours. The thing is that I feel like I understand a lot of the rules of the language in terms of grammar but I just get the tenses mixed up when I am talking--and i need a larger vocabulary. I had a disillusioned moment in class today when I made a mistake on a relatively simple thing and felt pretty down about my learning curve. I have to remind myself that I have been in 8 hours a day of class for most of my past days where only spanish was being spoken and, most of the time, i understood what was happening. Anyway, just a little note. I am going off with my dad now to buy our tickets for the bus to Pto. Escondido for miercoles and then I have a bit of craft shopping to do. Tonight is our last tamales night! Tomorrow night we are going to a somewhat fancy restaurant for our last night in Oaxaca ciudad.