Espagnol
Sarah is no longer a traveller. A nurse at the clinic in Oaxaca, she gets a work permit, a flat of her own and a crooked bookcase, visits Camila in Chiapas, and has to decide whether to go back to Boston. Learn to say what you want, hope, doubt and wish, and what you would do if things were different.
Les 2 premières leçons sont gratuites. Un abonnement débloque les autres, ici et dans l’application.
Intermédiaire niveau 1 - Partie 1
Leçons 1 à 10After twenty hours on the bus from Merida, Sarah is back in Oaxaca, and Valeria's family want to look after her.
Sarah's first day as a paid nurse at the clinic.
On Sarah's second Monday, a new nurse starts at the clinic, Tono from Mexico City, and Doctor Ruiz explains the rules to both of them.
On Thursday the fifteenth of January, Sarah takes a letter from Doctor Ruiz to the immigration office for her work permit, and the officer has a long list.
On Friday the twenty-third of January, an old patient of the doctor's is back for the third time this month, and Sarah has to convince him to take his medicine.
On Tuesday the twenty-seventh of January, Doctor Ruiz gives the team the plan for a vaccination day in a mountain village, and Tono misses the meeting.
In the mountain village of San Miguel, the clinic team vaccinates a hundred and twelve children in one day, with Elena's tamales for lunch and Doctor Ruiz at the wheel.
Over enchiladas, Elena announces that there's a colleague of hers Sarah simply has to meet, and that the coffee is tomorrow at five.
Sarah meets Julian, Elena's shy colleague, for a coffee on the main square, and one coffee turns into two coffees and a museum.
Valeria calls from Guadalajara, as promised, to hear about Sarah's first month at the clinic, and about two coffees and a museum with Julian.
Intermédiaire niveau 1 - Partie 2
Leçons 11 à 20Sarah walks into an estate agent's office to look for a flat of her own, and that evening she tells Elena.
Sarah and Elena see three flats in one afternoon - too small, too dark, and then a perfect one with a view - and that evening Sarah writes to Julian.
Sarah meets the landlady, Pilar, to sign the contract for her flat, and on Monday Elena signs as her guarantor and the keys are hers.
Three days before the move, everyone in the blue house knows Sarah is going, and tonight it's said out loud at the kitchen table.
Andres and Tono help Sarah carry thirty-two boxes and a mattress into her new flat.
Sarah and Julian spend Saturday at the furniture market.
Chayo arrives with cookies and an opinion about everyone, Sarah meets Beto and his dog, and a week later a locked door makes good neighbours essential.
Sarah has had no usable water since Tuesday.
On March twenty-first, Sarah welcomes family, colleagues and neighbours to her flat.
Julian keeps his promise of Sunday coffee.
Intermédiaire niveau 1 - Partie 3
Leçons 21 à 30Sarah calls Camila about Easter, asks for leave and turns possible plans into a booked journey.
Sarah reaches the mountain city on Thursday April second and catches up with Camila.
On Sunday April fifth, Sarah and Camila take a local bus to the Sumidero Canyon and explore it by boat.
Look back to Saturday's rainy visit to Palenque.
Back at the clinic, Sarah receives a new job invitation from Boston for June.
At Sunday lunch Sarah asks her Mexican family about the new Boston invitation.
On the promised evening walk, Sarah gives Julian his coffee from Chiapas and talks about the new Boston offer.
Sarah's mother answers in Spanish for the first time.
Sarah chooses to stay in Oaxaca and declines the new Boston job invitation.
On the last Sunday of April, Sarah helps Elena make mole at the blue house, then tells everyone around the long table in the yard that she's staying in Oaxaca.