Daniel Rosemarin is a retired high school English teacher from New York, New York.
He spent two weeks in our school in Lima, Perú, and plans to return to South America to study for a month or more.
Daniel gives advice for choosing appropriate housing, good activities, and where the best cat-watching location is.
Hear how he recovers quickly from an illness while abroad, and chuckle along with him about his Spanish vocabulary blunder!
0:15 – Daniel’s background as a retired high school English teacher
0:52 – Why Spanish? Why South America?
1:29 – Rosetta Stone under pressure
2:55 – Pre-program motivation & preparation
4:04 – Concerns with housing & travel as a student
5:10 – When to use homestay housing
7:01 – From teacher to learner
9:00 – Storage files filling up!
9:45 – Conversation in grammar class
11:16 – Student backgrounds
12:18 – Amigos – same boat, strange land
14:10 – Ecela housing
15:48 – Afternoon swimming/activities
17:30 – Cat watching
17:46 – Ceviche and other Peruvian dishes
18:18 – Sick in Lima
19:36 – Daniel’s sightseeing recommendations
21:23 – Differences in transportation, gratuity, restaurant pace, security, wandering money changers
24:14 – Small shops and pharmacies
26:29 – Hot beach food
27:00 – Peddling wares on streets?
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