espanol? what?

I can't, for the life of me, figure out why the hell I decided to take Spanish in college. I'm horrible at it. I should have stuck with French. Even though I would get absolutely no use out of it, what so ever, I still would have had the 2 years of French I slept through in high school to back me up a little bit. I just can't understand anything I learn in my Spanish class. I really like my teacher and I think she's a good teacher, but this Spanish stuff just doesn't sink in.
In a week I'm going to have to get up, in front of the whole class, and give a presentation...a memorized presentation on a cultural experience I have had. I'm screwed. I might as well just drop the class now and eat the massive amounts of money I spent to take the class.
I have spent the last 2 hours trying to write a paper that we are turning in on Thursday. So far, I have 5 sentences. 5 SENTENCES! That's ridiculous! I mean, who does that?
The worst part is that I think I'm the only one that doesn't get it. Everyone else seems to know what's going on at all times. When I'm in class, I do fine. I usually know the answer to whatever question she decides to ask, and if I don't, I usually can make something up that makes a little bit of sense. But when I come home and actually try to do something with it, I'm shit out of luck. It's like everything I could have possibly learned went out the window.
So I guess I should get back to writing this paper. If I keep going strong without stopping, I might have it finished by the end of the semester!