¡Eso es!

After my Spanish course at UBA ended a couple of weeks ago, I decided to let the lessons of the subjunctive sink in while just living en español. And with all the time I saved by not taking the #60 bus downtown 3x a week, I had no reason not to join the Well Club, the closest gym to my door. I committed to 6 months at $20 per month & got a free backpack (Perfect bonus: I’d been looking for a new backpack that didn’t promote the Federal Reserve.) Just looking at the extensive schedule of classes got my heart rate up. Spinning, Fight Do, Localizada... ('Localizada is a local gym,' I was told in English. 'And Fight Do is a fight class, like Tae Kwon Do.') Basically, I’m game for any of it. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve tried Localizada (= Body Sculpting at my old Crunch gym), Pilates Fit, Pilates Mat (the difference is subtle), Yoga and the Fight-Do-like Body Combat. My Spanish lessons: ¡Eso es! sounds like 'SOS!' but it’s 'That’s it!' Dale is basically 'come on.' Flojo is loose or slack while Flujo is flow. I completely spaced out when my Yoga instructor starting murmuring about the spirit re-energizing, bla bla (local spelling), as I always did in back in NYC. And she was probably using the subjunctive to express her opinions and doubts.