Our Spanish teacher announces that we will play the story game. Michelle and I will have 3 minutes to work on a story using both regular and reflexive verb forms in past tense. Then we will exchange papers, and continue working on the other’s story for another 3 minutes, then we exchange again.

So here’s how my story starts (in an English translation):

This morning, while my spouse was showering, I was abducted by a UFO. They took me to their planet ‘Garbanzo’ and made bad experiments on me. I knew I had to escape, and …”.

Three minutes were up. Just in time. I’m pleased with the progress we are making in Spanish. And I can’t wait to see how Michelle is going to finish this story…