Activity Log 10/21

Over the break, I went to Texas for a college visit. We went to one Mexican restaurant and instead of speaking in English, my mom forced me to speak in Spanish so that is what I did. In my hotel room, I finished watching a few more episodes of Maris la del Barrio since I was extremely behind. :------).
Another thing I did was watch a little bit of "Tres metros sobre el cielo" since my Cuban friend recommended it to me.

10/20 Calentamiento

Over the course of Quarter 1, I learned more words in Spanish that I was not used to before I started the class. I also learned essential conversational  phrases that make my Spanish come off as more natural rather than straight out of a textbook. In Quarter 2, I hope to learn even more conversational skills and gain the ability to speak on the spot at a high level.

Activity Log 9/30

This week in class we watched a movie called "The Latino List" on Netflix. We only saw a fraction of these influential Latinos and Latina speaking about their lives but I took it upon myslef to watch the rest on Netflix. One of my most favorite parts was the Pitpull part because ,one, I did not know is real name ,and two, it was so interesting to see him without his signature glasses. Another activity we did in class was watch a music video in Spanish that consisted of fast rapping in Spanish, which was very impressive because I can barely SPEAK in English.

Activity Log 9/16

I decided to branch my discovery of songs in Spanish that I enjoy so I decided to go bakc to spotify and search. Here are my favorites from this week:

• I do enjoy the Spanish version of Shakira's "Loca" way more than the English version. "
• Gasoline" by Daddy Yankee has always been a fave ever since I watched that one Bring It On movie. lol
• "Sola" by Becky G is a bop and I am happy to have found it.
• "Cheap Thrills" Remix by Sia and Nicky Jam is equally as good as the origingl with the introduction of very very minimal English other than the chorus.

Presentational Assignment

Por lo general , yo y mis amigos en la escuela sufren . Los fines de semana , nos quedamos en nuestras casas y sólo texto. Cuando nosotros salimos, que o bien ir a los juegos , salir a comer o ir té de burbujas bebida. Nuestro tipo de comida favorita es la comida asiática . Desde que practicar un deporte , pero mis amigos no lo hago, me apoyan en la multitud .

Activity Log 9/2 and 9/9

These Activity Logs are very late so to make up for the 75 minutes missed I decided to spend 150 minutes instead.


For a good 60 minutes, I convinced my Cuban friend to speak to me in Spanish while we were waiting for her ride to come pick her up after school. Most of our conversations consists of details involving KPOP so my statements were in the area of, "Yo prefería canción de EXO sobre la canción de Got7" , which caused her to hit me and say something very fast in Spanish which I couldn't quite catch.
I decided to spend the rest of my time watching episodes 4-7 of "Maria La Del Barrio" in order to catch up from where I left off. I really really really do not like Soraya!!!

Connection between Two Articles

In class we read two articles. One was about what adolescents do for fun and how the internet has impcted their form of socialization. The second article boldly states that a lack of social relationships is as unhealthy as an addiction to drugs or alcohol. These both connect to each other because without these kids having bonds of relationships (although not many but few) it could greatly impact their health.
Some details mentioned in the 1st articles were that kids played sports, watched television, and talked on the computer. The 2nd articel mostly mentioned statistics of what can happen when a person has no friends. For example, one with lots of social interaction will have less of a chance from dying of cancer than one with no social groups.