Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Regreso a clases y una pelicula peruana

Today we returned to classes after out little four day vacation. It was nice to see Andres again and we spent a good portion of the beginning of the class just explaining all of the exciting things we did over the weekend. But then we had to get back to work. Today we learned about the using the subjunctive when you are looking for someone or something or don't know if someone or something exist. It was a I topic I had learned before so I was comfortable using it today in class which was a nice change of pace because I noticed that I was more able to focus on the new vocabulary then. After grammar class we got to see Romeo again and talk about our weekends again and even heard about his and how he like heavy metal music. He did a really good job of incorporating today's topic into the conversation a lot which was really funny because whenever we got even a little off topic he would reel it in somehow. After conversation class we moved onto the topic of the conquest of Peru by Francisco Pizarro. This was pretty interesting as we learned about how Atahualpa was captured and then escaped an it was explained by saying he turned into a snake and got away.
  After class today we headed back to UNIFE but along the way our professor taught us a fun new song called Limon y Sal. She had a competition between the boys and the girls later on an the boys definitely won. Anyway back at UNIFE today we met with the English speaking club and played pictionary with them which was a lot of fun but also kind of hard because it was in both Spanish and English. After we watched a movie called Asu Mare.

It was a difficult movie to understand completely because there was a lot of slang used but the general idea was clear. The movie showed the live of Carlos Alcantara a comedian in Peru and how he grew up. The parts that I could understand were funny and it was still good practice listening to the Spanish and trying to understand. After the movie we broke off into smaller groups and they helped us understand more of the details of the movie. My group today spoke less English which was kind of nice because this way it was a better learning experience for both sides.  The girls were really inquisitive and it was a great conversation they said they would be there tomorrow too so I will definitely have to look for them.

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