Blog 7

1. Yo no fui a Chile el año pasado pero el año que viene.
2. Nadie vio la película ayer pero alguien la hoy.
3. No salimos del cuarto anoche pero   esta mañana.
4. Luis no siguió mis consejos ayer pero los más tarde.
5. Tú no pudiste venir esta tarde pero venir el lunes.
6. Yo jugué muy mal al tenis anoche pero mejor hoy.
7. Yo no dije nada en la clase ayer. Hoy mucho de interés
8. Ellos leyeron poco en el coche pero más en el hotel.
9. Hubo un terremoto en La Paz ayer y más en el futuro.
10. Ana miró el primer episodio anoche y el segundo hoy. 
11. Uds. ya me dieron una excusa y me otra mañana.
12. Mi madre sirvió pollo asado ayer y los restos hoy.
13. No vino nadie ayer y no nadie el sábado tampoco.
14. Vince condujo rápido ayer. En el futuro lentamente.
15. Nosotros hicimos un viaje en marzo y   otro en mayo.
16. El bebé durmió poco en el avión pero mejor en casa.
17. Ayer no tuvieron correo pero hoy   mucho.
18. Tú no supiste el secreto ayer pero lo en un minuto.
19. Pepe estuvo enfermo anoche pero mejor mañana.
20. No quisimos cenar ahora pero   comer más tarde.

Novia del campo, amapola
que estás abierta en el trigo;
amapolita, amapola
¿te quieres casar conmigo?
(Yo) Te (dar) toda mi alma,
(Tú) (tener) agua y tendrás pan.
Te daré toda mi alma,
toda mi alma de galán.
Tendrás una casa pobre,
yo te (querer) como un niño,
tendrás una casa pobre
llena de sol y cariño.

Yo te (labrar) tu campo,
tú (ir) por agua a la fuente,
yo te (regar) tu campo
con el sudor de mi frente.
Amapola del camino,
roja como un corazón,
yo te (hacer) cantar, y al son de la rueda del molino.
Yo te haré cantar, y al son
de la rueda dolorida,
yo te (abrir) mi corazón,
amapola de mi vida.
Novia del campo, amapola,
que estás abierta en el trigo:
amapolita, amapola,
¿te quieres casar conmigo?
Juan Ramón Jiménez won the nobel prize in literature in 1955

http://manamundo.tripod.com/elmundo.html
Mana founded Selva Negra in September 1995 to end environmental issues.

Victor Cauduro Rojas was born in 1962 in Mexico City. He is a famous artist that is inspired by his past and the natural world.

Ecoeduca is a website that is designed to inform latinos about the environment and how to conserve it in Latin American countries. It provides articles about recycling and other issues in the environment.

Blog #6

I am a Jaguar, I am known for my spotted fur, long athletic frame, and hunting skills.  I spend most of my days sleeping in the jungles of Costa Rica.  I am a nocturnal carnivore which means I hunt for my meals at night and I only eat meat.  I get my daily excercise from hunting in the jungles for my prey.  Although I am at the top of my food chain I still get hunted by humans year-round for my fur coat and because of this I am an endangered species.  If I am in a situation of being captured I will usually fight back or flee and find a large tree where I can hide and wait.  My life span is 12-15 years but in captivity I can live up to 23 years, if I'm not killed by hunters my most prolific cause of death is old age.

$10,000 What to do with it?

Well personally I believe that the money should go to upgrading our technology and software in our school.  Although the computers work well and somewhat fast most of the time the truth is that they are super slow compared to the speed of computers now days.  I think we should atleast get out of windows XP and move up to windows 7.  It would make things so much more efficient and easier.

Spanish Historical Figure

Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar or also known as El Cid Campeador was a nobleman and a military leader.  After he was exiled he took control and governed the city of Valencia.  Rodrigo Díaz was educated in the royal court of Castile and became the alferez, the chief general, of Alfonso VI, and his most valuable asset in the fight against the Moors.  El Cid was fighting one of the men when he was shot in the heart with an arrow.

This video is some freaky frog teaching you the numbers in spanish. The video was helpful but I already knew a lot of the numbers that he taught me. I would use this video to help me if I didn't know numbers that well.

This link wouldn't work so..if you search "Spanish videos" its the very first one. Mrs. Ritter I'm sure you know where to find it.

Enrique Iglesias is my artist, he is a Spanish pop music singer-songwriter.  Yes I have seen and heard of this artist before.  I don't really like his music, mainly because Im into heavier rock and metal.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJlIGDImiU

Entry #2

http://www.ihavenet.com/World-Spain-Chavez-a-Pain-for-Spain-JB.html

Basically what this article is saying is that Hugo Chavez wants to resolve peace with Spain but unfortunate past events are preventing the relationship between the two countries to continue to get any better.  Spain believes that Venezuela to be home ETA terrorist.  As well as Chavez interrupted a speech  by the Spanish prime minister in order to offer up some of his thoughts of the speech this is when the Spanish king Juan Carlos cried out "why don't you just shut up?" this is what is believed to be straining the relationship between the two countries.

 The article was well written and easy to follow, I was not aware that the strain between the two countries as so great and that they were in dislike of each other.  I doubt that this event will affect me at all.

Spanish 2 - First Blog Post

My goals for in Spanish 2 are to adequately be able to talk, listen, and better understand Spanish.  I want to be able to hold a conversation with someone and understand everything that I am saying and what they are saying as well.  Another goal is to pass the class with an A of course.

I learn best through writing things down, looking at them, and remembering what they mean and when to use them.  I also learn well when I'm put in a situation where I have to think my answers through and analyze every possible solution.  I need sarcasm and fun put into lessons as well, not just seriousness and notes.

In Spanish 1 Mrs. Keenan taught us the basics and how to form words together to make sentences that we could use in everyday life.  We spent a lot of time going over stem-changing or shoe verbs.  Activities that I liked that Mrs. Keenan did was the slap game, magic squares, and the vocabulary note cards.  All of these things were fun, challenging, and taught me what I needed to know.  But the activities in the workbook and book helped as well, not as fun, but helped none the least.