Vroom vroom

I swore in front of my students for the first time today. Not at them, I just failed at saying 'open it' (the it in question was a file they needed to open for a computer demo, and I know of no other way to say 'open it' than abrirlo, and those two r's are too close together for my gringo tongue) so many times that there was nothing left to say but joder. A few of them sort of laughed and the file got opened and no one died, but today was otherwise a complete fucking disaster. Whiiiine. A computer demo should have been easy enough, but I couldn't figure out how to log into said computer and then I couldn't find the program I was supposed to be demo-ing and then I fucked up the data and then I forgot how to say a lot of words like quotation marks and parenthesis and if I were teaching at this level of incompetence in the United States there would probably be consequences. Expectations are much lower here, so I've got that going for me. And, whenever I try to own up to what a disaster I am, the professor in charge of my course starts going on about how bad the students here are and blames everything on them. It's sort of reassuring, I guess, although it's really not the students' fault that I don't properly speak their language (their second language, really, since they're mostly Catalans). At least I know how to properly say beer.