In school, I’ve always been in classes with 30+ students…in college many of my classes had 300+ kids. The classes I took for the Spanish major were a little better at having smaller class sizes…until they turned many of our upper-division Spanish classes into lecture courses, aka turning our previous 30 student class into a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘spanish’
January 14, 2009
cultural anthropology: The United States of Mexico
To fulfill my final few credits, I was enrolled in an International Communications course. Exciting yes, because international communications is certainly an avenue of my career path I see myself exploring. However, the structure and focus of this course I knew did not align with my interests. So, I created my own class. I’m really [...]
November 14, 2008
school is killing my education
Schools killing creativity and relativity have always been a topic of interest and curiosity. I have to say the University of Oregon has a multitude of outstanding programs, classes, professors, clubs, etc. However, the major component missing at the U of O – and in reality the majority of schools – is the element of [...]
November 2, 2008
el autopista y la vida…
Ya terminé el cuento “El Autopista del Sur” por Cortázar y…que inteligente! Es tan inteligente porque el autor escribirlo en una manera que podemos relatar en nuestras vidas y también en el mundo político y social. En esta cuento, me encanta el simbolismo que representa el autopista, el movimiento del trafico, el concepto del tiempo [...]
November 27, 2007
vw commercial
¿¿How can I not love this?? ¡¡especialmente porque la canción es en español!!!
September 16, 2007
learning Spanish tongue twisters
Sept 13th, 2007 School was fine today. We went to a different English class today to practice English/Spanish. Today we worked on teaching each other tongue twisters. My accent is getting a lot better, but it’s funny having people try to correct me. Today my partner, Victor, was trying to get my to improve my [...]
November 11, 2006
el cristo rey
For my Spanish class I had to write a paper on a religious figure so I chose to write about Jesus (yes, standard, but Latin America sure has some beautiful artwork of Jesucristo) Anyway, there are three similar statues of Him in Latin America. This first one on the right is located in Rio De [...]
