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Had my spanish lesson

Had my spanish lesson today. A bit later than usual because my teacher had to run her young daughter to the doctor. After class I was working on a page of homework and Salame was working in the kitchen. Salame is a lady who works for us one day a week, doing things like cleaning, cooking, and ironing. She's a Quichua indian, and she was telling me that she to had to learn spanish once. When she was six she really wanted to go to school. But her parents wouldn't send her. They wanted her to stay at home. Then when she was ten she when to live with some missionaries and go to school and work for them. She said it was harder for her to learn spanish because she didn't go to school until she was ten, and that it would have been easier to learn if she went to school when she was six years old. I told her I'm 39, and that's why it's so hard for me to learn spanish!