Stitch stitch read read. It's tricky to get a rhythm going but not impossible, she uses her eyes to absorb a sentence of Spanish into working memory and then flicks her gaze down to her shirt to place the needle while she processes the language, and then she moves on to the next sentence, and when she comes to the end of a thought, she checks against the facing English translation to make sure she had it right. She checks her watch after she's gotten to the first page turn. At this pace she can finish the story by the end of the class, it's not that long and it's a double class block, and the in-class assignment is - okay, it's a page of short-answer comprehension questions with a longer homework essay and homework spells, she can stick to her current strategy. Daisies daisies fucking daisies. That fire spell she does when surprised had better save her life a few times to be worth it. (The spell only works when you're surprised.)

In short, I led a student’s life without hunger or scabies, which is the greatest praise one can give to say that it was good; because if scabies and hunger were not so closely associated with students, there would be no other life more pleasant and amusing, because in it virtue and pleasure go together, and one spends one’s youth learning and enjoying oneself.

Bella admits that she does not have scabies, whatever the fuck scabies is. She draws an arrow toward that passage, she can probably build an essay around it without much difficulty. Once she's looked up scabies.

There are a lot of spells mentioned in the story, weather and teleporting and healing and gardening and scrying and shapeshifting spells. Some of them are bullshit, and some of them are not freshman level at all, and a couple are in the homework as real spells, some in Spanish and some in English. The healing spell isn't very good, it's an old-fashioned English one intended for hymen restoration. The scrying one, given in Spanish, is all right, makes a specified person's image appear in your fingernail, so it's very small but that's its biggest disadvantage if you do want to see someone's image. Definitely doesn't have the power necessary to reach out of the Scholomance but if she loses track of someone in a dicey situation and can't find them she could use it ever. The only spell with its actual text given in the story isn't real. Cervantes was not a wizard, and also people do not turn humans into dogs.