Spain Part 70 – Películas en dos clases
Apr. 7th, 2008 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amorousodiousMonday was class as usual, but in our first class of the day Augustín had a surprise for us…it was Movie Day! We got to watch the first part of “Lenguas de las Mariposas” which means “Tongues of the Butterflies,” a movie about the beginning of the Guerra Civil (civil war) in Spain. It was a lot of comedy (a little boy about 9 years old is the main character so I’m sure you can imagine) in-between the ultra-serious/sad parts about the republica (republic/democracy) in Spain and how Franco came in and tried to take over. Basically the operation was only supposed to take 3 weeks but the resistance was stronger than anticipated and boom, three years of civil war.
My other classes were actually just as interesting. In grammar we role played different characters and gave people orders, or asked genies to grant us wishes and such. Basically it’s to help us learn the subjunctive, a tense that doesn’t exist in English so it’s one of the more difficult ones to learn. In Mass Media we watched yet another movie, or rather an old television program that was something along the lines of what The Goonies would be if it were a television show. Finally, in Economics I gave a presentation on the Spanish company called Camper that makes high-end casual shoes. I’m not sure I did so well on the presentation itself, but the paper that went with it I’m sure I did okay.
After classes Alicia and I stuck around to use the internet for a little while and then headed home for la cena. We had tortellini pesto and ensalada, which is one of my favorites, but I don’t think that Alicia likes it as much. It’s not the best of tortellini, but we eat pasta so rarely here that I’m excited whenever we do get to eat it. It’s weird eating pasta only occasionally right now when just last semester it was basically the main part of just about every meal. After la cena Lucía sent Alicia on an errand to the farmacia (pharmacy) and I helped Lucía hacer las camas (make the beds) because she had just washed our sheets. I finished up my tarea after that and went to bed.
My other classes were actually just as interesting. In grammar we role played different characters and gave people orders, or asked genies to grant us wishes and such. Basically it’s to help us learn the subjunctive, a tense that doesn’t exist in English so it’s one of the more difficult ones to learn. In Mass Media we watched yet another movie, or rather an old television program that was something along the lines of what The Goonies would be if it were a television show. Finally, in Economics I gave a presentation on the Spanish company called Camper that makes high-end casual shoes. I’m not sure I did so well on the presentation itself, but the paper that went with it I’m sure I did okay.
After classes Alicia and I stuck around to use the internet for a little while and then headed home for la cena. We had tortellini pesto and ensalada, which is one of my favorites, but I don’t think that Alicia likes it as much. It’s not the best of tortellini, but we eat pasta so rarely here that I’m excited whenever we do get to eat it. It’s weird eating pasta only occasionally right now when just last semester it was basically the main part of just about every meal. After la cena Lucía sent Alicia on an errand to the farmacia (pharmacy) and I helped Lucía hacer las camas (make the beds) because she had just washed our sheets. I finished up my tarea after that and went to bed.
