When we were in Valencia we decided to take a break and go watch a movie. We found a cinema which was about 1/2 hour walk from our hotel. We headed out and walked to the cinema. When we arrived there was a selection of movies playing and only one playing that was in english. We did not want to see that particular english movie and so we picked a spanish movie called “El Toro” which means the bull.

I went up and ordered the two tickets for El Toro and was proud at how well I spoke Spanish.  We got our tickets and headed for the cinema #16 for El Toro. As we approached the usher to take our tickets he looked at them and said something in Spanish and we looked at him confused. He must have thought wow these guys are going to a spanish movie and can’t even understand me!  He said in broken english to wait a few minutes until the cinema was available. Feeling a little dishearten at our Spanish ability we sat and waited for the cinema to open.

Shelley went and bought some popcorn and a drink while we waited and then we were able to go and get our seats.  When we got inside the cinema we were the only ones there. There was no one else in the entire cinema, we sat down and enjoyed the Spanish movie.

The movie was very good and we were able to follow along with our limited Spanish. Four months ago when we first arrived in Spain there was no way we could have watched a movie and understood it. Our Spanish is improving slowly everyday it is a difficult process at times but rewarding.

“adio y que tenga un gran días”