If I can't speak it, how am I supposed to write it?

My summer hobbies now include: cooking (of course) and jewelery making. The jewelery is really a revived hobby, since I used to do it all the time. Anyway, it gives a bit more vibrancy to the otherwise dull and tedious hours/days/weeks that make the summer what it is. I really have nothing to do here. Friends at home are few and far between, and as the Beatles knew: you get by with a little help from your friends. But I'll probably survive. Having a hobby helps.
And, of course, there's always the enormous amount of time I spend trying to comprehend and/or pass my Spanish 1 class. So I can pass my Spanish 2 class. At least it's going a bit better than before... or at least I think so. We had our first actual test on Thursday, so I'll know for sure sometime next week. This weekend I had to write 150 words (in spanish, obviously) about a certain topic and in a certain tense. It's been mind bogglingly frustrating, because it's only 150 words and, for crying out loud, I wrote more than that for 1st grade compositions. But since it's in espanol, I've been struggling with it all day. hmph. Stupid spanish.