This last weekend I went to a wrestling tournament in Michigan! It was super fun. While I was there I we had to stay in a hotel. The first night we were there we were watching TV and flipping through the channels and a spanish one came on... I told them to keep it there so I could see if I could understand it. I got some of it but they were talking pretty fast so it was hard. Thats my story for the month.

Bring It On: Fight to the Finish

There is a lot of Spanish in this movie! I caught a lot of things that they were talking about. Her stepdad said Mi casa es su casa, which means my house is your house. Also, Lina was talking about her family. (mi familia) This movie is one of my fav's, and it is just that much cooler since it has a little bit of spanish in it. Even though the main language is English in this movie, I think it does a good job of showing how regular people use their Spanish in every day life.

Law and Order

I was watching Law and Order: SVU and they were trying to get one guy and and they finally got up to him and started to talk to him and said that he didn't speak english.   So then one of the detectives just started talking in spanish like she was Mexican.  They had on the bottom of the TV what they were saying but I tried not to look and just understand what they were saying.

Spanish!

I was getting ready for work the other day and I was watching tv.  When all of a sudden the Progressive comericial came on.  It was the one where the guy said.." No mas pantalones."  and my sister kept asking me what he was saying and I could actually tanslate what he was saying.  Then when I got to work there was a mexican family that came in and they where looking for the rice but they didn't know englisha nd when they asked me where it was I was able to help them out.  I was a little proud off my self.

A couple weekends ago I was working on my homework on the computer and was listening to music on Youtube. I would type in different artists and then more of their songs would come up so I was just clicking on the songs. When I was listening to Justin Bieber he had a song called Mi Amor.  I knew that Mi Amor was spanish for my love because I have heard it in a couple of the songs that Senorita plays in class.  He also said a few words like bonita and chica and other words like that in the song and one of the phrases was something like "bonita numero uno chica" and from what I have learned in Spanish 1, I put it together that he was saying "number one pretty girl."  Without being in Spanish 1 for this first year I would probably have never put that together.

Spanish

         I went to Walmart an amount of days ago and there were some guys speaking Spanish.  They were talking real fast and I could not understand them.  They went over to the the pastry aisle and grabbed a loaf of bread.   They then jabbered a litttle more and they finally went and checked out.

Spanish saying

The other day I was watching t.v. and a commercial came on for Carlos O Kelly's and how you have to live mas.  I was excited because I knew what they were saying.  Then this morning on the way to school I heard about cinco de mayo and how Carlos O Kelly's has a seven pound taco they are making for it.  Sweet.

Spanish in the Mall

So a couple of weeks ago I was shopping at the mall in Dubuque and I overheard some Hispanic people talking. I couldn't help myself but to eavesdrop on what they were talking about. I heard a few words that I understood and I could pretty much put together what they were talking about. We were in a store and they were looking at a shirt. I heard them say camisa and bonita which are shirt and pretty which would make sense since they were obviously looking to decide if they wanted to buy it or not. I was actually really impressed that I could understand what they were saying just by a couple of words. It's nice that the little bit of Spanish we have learned can help you understand a conversation in the real world. Spanish is everywhere.

American Diggers

The other night I was watching tv and turned on a new show called American Diggers.  These guys go around and ask people if they can dig for artifacts on their property and if they find some and sell them they split the money.  The head guy went up to a house and when the owner came to the door she only spoke Spanish.  They both spoke fast and I only really picked up on a few words like hola, mucho, tengo, and adios.  I thought it was cool because I could partly understand what they were saying to each other while my dad sat in the chair next to me and had a dumb look on his face.

Padres Magazine

One day when I was at the University of Iowa's Childrens hospital I saw a Spanish magazine called Ser Padres in a waiting room. I thought it was neat to see a magazine in Spanish at a hospital, because I have never seen one. It seemed like it was the same exact thing as the Parents magazine, but just a Spanish version. I could recognize some words on the front like familia, and el, la, and los. I did flip through a few pages, and saw some other words that I knew like divertido. I just thought it was really neat to see a magazine in Spanish, and be able to see how many words I could translate.

Xavier's Blog

My dad and I were standing outside, when these people showed up.  They just came driving into our place like they knew us but I had never seen them before.  Then these 3 Mexicans and an American guy got out.  They were from Chicago and just wanted to ask a few questions for a survey.  The one guy said he worked with the Board of Trade.  So we went into our office.  They were speaking some spanish but I had no idea what they were asking because they were taking to the guy that spoke English and then he asked us those questions.  It was a pretty interesting experience.

Text Messages

There has been many times where my friend Mario will text me in spanish. Sometimes there will be words that I don't know but most of the time I know what he is talking about. Most of the time it is as simple as donde esta. But sometiemes he sends long messages about going to his house or his mom going to get his hat for prom. Sometimes I will answer back to him and spanish and he will be surprised that I actually understood what he was saying but it wasn't that hard. There was also this time that I was on facebook and my cousin posted a status about how she lost her luggage at the airport but then something good happened to her. At the end of her post she out muy bien. My mom read it to me and asked what it meant and I was able to tell her what it meant right away. Thanks to spanish I am able to now a lot more things then I would have.

Rio on Hbo Latin

The new movie Rio has become a big hit in my family household.  We found it very funny and cute.  Rio was on Hbo about two weeks ago which puts it on Hbo Latin also.  I turned it onto the Spanish version and listened in for words or phrases  might understand and picked up a couple.  It was cool to listen to the movie in a Spanish speaking country in Spanish.

Anaelisa's bog

While sitting at my dads house we were all trying to find something to do, so I said hey! lets watch a movie.  So my dad said that I even got to go and pick it out, so I chose the movie Bug's life.  It is a movie about these little bugs and they are so cute and it is such an old movie that it was a VCR tape!  In the middle of the movie the ant decided to go on a trip.  While this ant was on this trip he walked into a restaurant in time to find a little fly singing on stage and  written on the stage was muy caliente.  I yelled out hey dad that is Spanish! and dad said is it really what does it mean and Manny and I said at the same time very hot! It was funny and my dad was glad that Manny and I actually listen in school because he says that we do not listen at home.  

Spanish in the store

A couple of weekends ago, my parents and I went to a store in Dubuque to look for new shoes for me. While I was trying on some shoes, I could hear some people on the other side of the shelf talking Spanish. It felt like I knew a lot more of what they were saying then I would if I wasn't in Spanish.