According to Lafayette College Course Description, Elementary Spanish is described as follows:

This sequence is for beginners, covering the fundamentals of spoken and written language through the development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Class/laboratory.

Prerequisite: Novices only. Students with two or more years of high school Spanish are ineligible to take Spanish 101.

Here is my rendition:

When it came to the Spanish language, I was overconfident because of my several years of  experience with it during my primary and secondary education years. I have studied Spanish since the fourth grade and attempted to use this confidence towards my ambition to capitalize on the Spanish language at Lafayette College. If it was up to me, this part of the story would not exist as I would have started at the intermediate level of Spanish. However, this important part of the story exists because upon taking the placement test in Spanish, I was quickly humbled. I was quickly informed that if I would receive a degree with Spanish on it I would have to do it the hard way. I happily took on the challenge with the assistance of my first Spanish teacher in college, Professor Shupp.

Professor Shupp or as I would like to refer to him, Profe Taco made my experience a pleasurable one. For example he would never refer to test as quizzes by those names. Rather he would relax my classmates and I by calling them fiestas, reliving the pressure grades. Academically, he reinstilled the tools necessary to move forward in my journey.

This experience was captured in my final project displaying the vast improvements in my reading, writing and verbal skills:Elementary Spanish Final Project \’07-\’08 School Year