Column: Writing in Spanish

Near the end of my eighth grade year I was able to sign up for freshman year classes that included my first foreign language credit.

Like a lot of eighth graders, I was a genius in my own mind and thought the best fit would be to take German. I still have no idea what I was thinking. Unless I planned on living in Germany this made absolutely no sense. If I remember correctly, most of my friends were going to take German and that is why I signed up. I would take German throughout high school and a semester and a half in college. I sounded really good with my accent and could read Deutsch wonder...