Spanish Class

I am auditing a Spanish class.  It is the first time I have ever studied Spanish. Instead of having a language lab on the computer, our teacher is making us hang out with an assigned Spanish speaking family for 1 hour per week.  Today, I met my family.  Actually, it is funny.  I got the address and realized her house is literally right behind mine.  I can walk to it in 30 seconds.  That is convenient.  We talked for a solid hour in Spanish.  I was really worried because I had only had two Spanish classes so far.  I mean, we haven't even learned verbs.  What am I going to do, say "Buenos dias!" all night?  But I didn't realize how much my Italian would come in handy.  A lot of the verbs are the same.  Like cambiar and cambiare (to change) for example.  Anyway, I was able to get pretty far with just my Italian knowledge. So it was a lot more successful than I thought.  The family is really nice and I look forward to talking to them again.  My Spanish teacher gave us each the Bible and 'Steps to Christ' in Spanish.  I guess we will start reading them in class.