Spanish papers

I just finished a six-page paper, in Spanish. This was probably the hardest paper I have had to write in the history of my Spanish-speaking career. I have written two or three page papers in Spanish before, but never six, nor have I ever had to write a research paper in Spanish or researched anything in Spanish. This was a great learning experience for me, because I had to reach back into my mind a re-learn how to write a research paper because it was in Spanish, and it was like I had never written one before, it was odd, I felt like a seventh grader again, learning how to put a research paper together again.
It was not the structure or how to write necessarily, but all of the steps to take in order to put it together. Normally, in English research papers, I have do so many that I can sit on the computer with a few books next to me and when I need a quote, I can skim pages until I find the best quote. I could not really do that in Spanish, because it took me so long to comprehend and translate each sentence or quote that I had to mark pages or write note cards with what I wanted to use, then I had to outline what I wanted in each paragraph and do the whole routine again, something I had not done in forever. But, I did get it done and it turned out to be a good paper and I am very proud of it, and what I learned.