Adventure Is Out There!: Telugu Apparently Easy?

We have a Telugu class in the morning three days a week, and it’s taught by two teachers. One of our teachers, Sarma garu, has been teaching us some Telugu poems and this past week we have been learning how to write them in Telugu. The writing looks pretty cool! I like learning how to write some things in Telugu but it’s a lot of memorization! It’s so funny because anyone here who speaks Telugu will tell us how easy it is to learn and that it will be no problem for us. One man said it would only take us a month to learn the language haha I don’t know what planet he came from but we've been here for over a month and no such luck! One teacher (while telling us some words for random things) said “you will use them and you will know them” haha it’s as simple as that! So anyways it has been funny going to class having both teachers overload us with words and then expect us to know them and say full sentences using those words by the next day of class. Well Sarma garu has given us three different poems so far to write and have memorized this week. Monday he tested us on the first, Tuesday the first and second poems, and tomorrow (Friday) he is testing us on the biggest poem. On Monday’s and Tuesday’s tests I was the only one to finish them completely without mistakes! Wahooo!!! Haha I felt like a little kid with a gold star sticker on my forehead! So that part of Telugu class is going well but the whole speaking it and writing it is quite difficult! Anyways I thought it would be fun to show some pictures of what these poems look like! I call it the caterpillar language because the writing looks like little caterpillars!