The other day I was at my dads house and I was telling him about making the pinyatas. Then we got talking about spanish class and how my stepmom works works with some mexicans on the farm and they are very nice people but they got my step mom and her boss into alot of trouble because they were illegal and they did not belong working were they were so she did end up having to go to court the other day and settle this. The other day she told me that when she was at work there were a bunch of investigators at her bosses house and they went threw all of his things looking to find out why and exactly they have illegal mexicans working there with them. Over summer i had worked there with them and they were very hard workers and they were very nice to all of us sdo i do not know why the athoritys were even contacted in the first place.

Advanced Auto

Jesse and I walk into Advanced Auto in Dubuque and go up to the counter to ask the lady for what Jesse needed for his truck. We told her and she left to go try to find the part. While she was gone two mexicans walked in and started speaking really loud and Jesse looked at them and then looked back. Then they walked past us and stood behind people in the other line and were still kind of talking loud in spanish. Then Jesse said to me "Your in spanish what are they saying?" I was like "Do you hear how fast they are speaking?","Their is no way i'm going to understand what they're saying." Then Jesse thought exactly what you said Senorita, he goes,"I feel like their talking about me"." I said, "That's what our spanish teacher said one of us would probably feel like but they most likly are not." Then we got our parts and left.

Salena gomez

I was switching through channels when i came across a show that stared Salena Gomez and i remeber that she is spanish speaking american.

She has her own show Wizards Of Waverly Place.

I am glade that there is Latin American haveing their own show.

Mexicans in wal-mart

The other day when I was in Wal-Mart I saw a family of Mexicans shopping. There was a woman, a man, and what seemed to be their kids. As I walked by them I heard them talking to each other in spanish, even though I'm in spanish class I couldn't understand what they were saying, because they were talking too fast. The man had probably the greatest mullet I have ever seen on person it went down past his waist and was truly awesome. He was carrying on a conversation with his son and i tried to follow along but they lost me after the first word. So that is the story of my encounter with the Mexicans in Wal-Mart.

Family

When I was at home my brother started to say the few phrases he knew in japanese so i countered him with spanish. He claimed i was being unfair but the i said he had started it so he had better try to finish it and then we both went on in spanish and i won because i know more spanish than him. This was a main reason i wanted to learn spanish.

Mexicans in the ally

I was out taking garbage out to the dumpster Friday night when I heard mexican music so I looked down the ally way and saw a bunch of obese mexicans in some run down cars. They were having a family get together that they have every Friday in the back ally where all the garbage is. They seem very poor, so I thought to my self Im very glad I am not a mexican partying in a back ally in dyersville, Iowa

The Mexican who raced

Pedro Rodríguez was a open wheeled race car driver for lotus. He had two wins. he was not very good. The End

Birthday Gift

Every time I pick out a present for my friends, I try to find something that matches their personality or something that will make them enjoy their birthday.

Julie Jones's birthday was on November 11. Weeks before that I had spent hours trying to think of what to get her. After 10 hours and a lot of second guesses, I decided to take her out to eat. I asked her where she would like to go and she picked Las Flores in Manchester. We hopped in the jeep and drove to Manchester.

When we got there, we looked around, absorbing the Spanish music, the smell of the Mexican food and the family sitting on the other side of the restaurant staring at us because we didn't seat ourselves yet. The waiter approaches us shortly after we sit down and he asks us what we would like to drink. She then orders chicken nachos and I order the fajita pita. The food was good and I loved the chips and salsa at the beginning but we decided to try new things..like the sauces on the side of the table.

I started with the regular hot sauce, and I liked it. Then we tried the red colored Habanero sauce, it was spicier but it wasn't bad. Then she had me try the green colored Habanero sauce, it burned so bad. It even smelled like it would burnAs we are about to leave, Julie decides we should have a contest. She thinks we should take the sauce put a line on the end of are knives and like it. The first to go for the pop, loses. As we about ready to go, she says "Hey does that look like someone we know", as I turn she dumps all her sauce off her knife. We then lick them, and I feel as if I started a wildfire inside my mouth. Everything burned. It even felt as if my insides of my eyes and ears were burning.

After I had won the bet, I had giving Julie money to walk up and pay the bill. The burning was starting to make my stomach hurt. We left and then both decided to go to the gas station and get milk to calm the burning.I have now learned my lesson. If it smells like it's burns, looks like it's going to burn, it will probably burn. DON'T TRY IT!

Hugo Sanchez

Hugo Sanchez was born in Mexico City on July 11, 1958. He played as a striker in soccer for many teams over his career. He became a very well known player in Mexico and eventually made it in Europe also. He helped his team in the 84 - 85 season win the Spanish Cup, the Spanish Supercup, and come in second in the Spanish LaLiga. That year he also one the Pichichi trophy for being the best scorer in the league. In his whole career he played roughly 769 games and scored an amazinf 477 goals. He is known as one of the legends in Mexico in the sport of soccer and places an impact on players today in Mexico.

http://www.soccer-fans-info.com/hugo-sanchez.html

choir song

in choir we are singing a spanish song. The song is A la na nita nana. It is a lot easier to sing a spanish song this year because i know a lot more words then i did last year.

I was in McDonalds the other day and there was this spanish family. They were have a conver sation so i listended in to see if i could pick a few words out and to try to understand what they were saying but they were talking to fast for me to understand. I only ended up getting like 5 words at the most.

Paul Rodriguez Junior is a Hispanic skateboarder. His father is the famous comedian Paul Rodriguez. He turned pro at age 16. The end.

Baltasar Garzón

He was born in 1955 in Villa de Torres, Spain. Baltasar Garzón was a provincial judge at 23, and worked for the National Court at age 32. Garzón is one of six judges for Spain's National Court. In 1993, he took a leave of absence to run for a seat in Spanish parliament on the socialist ticket. He was a bad speaker, but his support was useful for the socialists. Baltasar won a seat, and he later quit politics and returned to his earlier job a year after the election. He has been in charge of some of Spain's big cases, like drug trafficking, corruption, the Basque terrorist group ETA, and the GAL, the shady hit-squad. In July 2009, Garzon organized the International Jurisdiction Summer School at El Escorial, where he helped bring up the Speak Truth to Power play starring prominent Spanish actors and U.S. actor Martin Sheen to Spain.

Rihannna has a new song that I absolutely love. its called Te amo and its talking about love. of course you would guess that because of the name but it has a really good beat. and from the lyrics it kind of seems she is singing it from a guys point of view and has a girl saying te amo to her (him) and doesnt get what the girl is saying but still says it back but thinks it mean I love you.

Texting

So I was texting a friend from Western Dubuque the other day. All of a sudden he sent me a message in Spanish, at first I was not sure what he said, but then I realized I understood the message. I answered him in Spanish and for a while we talked like that. We used simple words like gustar but it was actually kinda fun. We could understand each other in another language!! It was fun, but I do not plan on texting in Spanish any time soon! :)

I was at my sisters house the other day ad her boyfriend is mexican so they always have his friends over and a lot of times they are mexican also and sometimes he doesnt even like the people that are there like in this instance. And I had myself a stalker when I was there. It was really late and I wanted to go to be and this guy kept saying something to me and he didnt speak any english and I couldnt understand him and he was giving me the creeps so finally my sisters boyfriend physical had to take him from the house and I told robert what he had been saying but robert didnt understand becausee he never really listened to spanish but the next day his mom said I didn't even want to know what he said but she ended up telling me it had to do with a kiss. and he was like 30! creeppppppppppyyyyyy!

So I was sitting in church the other day and There was a little card that had a prayer on it and then on the reverse side it had the same prayer in Spanish and i read through it and saw words that I knew like cada persona- Every person. It was cool because I would look at the spanish and try to guess what it mean and then look on the english side to see if I was right.

Jennifer was Born July 24, 1969. She started off as a dancer seen in music videos. Then she won a competition and became a dancer on "living color." Her first Feature movie was in Mi familia or my family. Her First big showing was in 1997 the biography of Selena Perez who was killled by a crazy fan in 1995.

Translation?

Last night I was cleaning around the house and I looked at the bag my paper towels came in and it said, "Using less never felt so good." Under it there was a translation of it, "Usar menos nunca se sintio tan bien." Then I thought that it couldn't be right. That translation says," To use less never it felt so good." Is that how they translate everything in spanish? If they do that is weird to say "never it felt" and "to use less". They should have translated it as, "Usando menos sintio tan bien." At least in that one it actually says "using less." I can't believe I could actually understand what it was saying!

Spanish Food? My Favorite.

This past weekend I went shopping with my friend Jesse. We both needed some Christmas shopping done. After we got all of our shopping done we met up with his sister Sadie and her boyfriend Austin. We were all hungry so we decided to eat at Carlos O Kellys. Once we sat down and got our menus I realized we could have some fun with Sadie and Austin. So Jesse and I started quizzing them on their Spanish using the words on the menu, well, they failed.

Los Aztecas!

Last weekend, my family and I went out to eat at L...Last weekend, my family and I went out to eat at Los Aztecas in Dubuque. It is one of my favorite restaurants! I love eating there because it is all real Mexican food instead of generic. When you walk in you hear Spanish music, it has a nice beat to it. They have a lot of maracas and horns in the songs. Sometimes while I am waiting for my food I will listen to it and try to understand some of the words that they are saying. The decorations there seem to be all Mexican because we dont see them a lot around here. It is very colorful. I ordered chicken enchiladas with queso sauce. It is so good. I get it every time I eat there. They are fast servers. a lot of the workers there are really Mexican! They have a thick accent. It is kind of fun to hear them talk. They all spoke in English to us but I sort of wanted to try to talk in Spanish to them. When they brought me my food I said gracias instead of thank you. The waitor looked at me in surprise and smiled and said denada. It was a great experience going there (:

Movie in Spanish

Last time I was on Netflix I decided to watch this movie that looked interesting. I started watching it and it was in spanish but I thought it was going to change to english, but it never did. So I decided to keep watching it and see if I could tell what it was about. I made out some of the words and I could tell what it was about from what was going on. It was pretty interesting.

Stalker

I was watching the news this morning and it turns out that selena gomez has a stalker that has threatened to kill her. The stalker has a restraning order on him but the quart wont put a permanent one in place yet. Then the stalker said he wants a permenant restraning order agenst her so he wont be tempted to hurt her. Then the stalker said that god told him to and that he talks to god up to 50 times a day. Its a very interesting case.

Mexico

When I looked at my shampoo bottle in the shower, I tried to see if I could read any of the Spanish on there. I understood a couple phrases. One sentence said something about ayudar (to help) el pello. I was surprised that I knew a whole sentence on the shampoo bottle.

Also, when I went to Mexico last summer, I went shopping with my Mom in Cozumel. We went to a street market sort of thing. A mexican man tried to sell me a bracelet and asked me to marry him. I didn't really understand their culture and what he was trying to do. He was trying to get me to buy the bracelet, but I thought he was being serious. He told me if I ever come back to Mexico, he wanted me to come find him. My mom bought the bracelet and we left right away. Going to Mexico was the most fun I've had in a long time. The weather and the water is amazing.

Spanish Youtube Video

About a month ago I was going to watch a video on youtube. WHen the video started I found out that it was in Spanish. So, I decided to keep watching and find out how much I could translate into English. I was amazed at how fast the talking was. I was also surprised by how much of the video I could understand. It was a fun experience.

I went to theisons a couple of weeks ago and saw a hispanic family in there. They were looking at toys. I walked past and heard them talking spanish. I stopped and acted like I was looking at something and I tried listening to their conversation. I heard a lot of words but one word I heard was compro and then at the check out I saw them buying a tractor. I was impressed I got that one word out of their because they were talking so fast. I don't ever think I could talk that fast in spanish.One reason would be because I

Ave Maria by David Bisbal is my favorite spanish song. The first time I heard this song was when I was in middle school and my brother Jacob was in Spanish. He showed me it and I was hooked. When Sinereta played it in class I was like oh my God I know this song. It gets my blood pressure up and I can't help but dance. I'm not even sure what they are saying in the song but it has a great rhythm. The song was released in 2002 in his first album called Corazon Latino. The sales on that album was 1,700,000 sales

Chicago

For Thanksgiving I went to Chicago. When I was there, in our hotel the maids were all speaking spanish. I tried too see if I could understand what they were saying and if i could tell my family what they were saying, but they were talking really fast and I couldn't really understand them. Chicago is filled with spanish speaking people and it is really cool to listen to how they talk and see if you can carry on a conversation with them.

MEXICO

So my parents are going to Mexico in January and i was trying to give my dad some tips on speaking Spanish. I told him some little phrases that might come in handy but i don't think he caught on. They were looking at the resort they are staying at on the internet and saw a sign in Spanish. They asked me to help them translate it the words were a little to complicated for me. Then we zoomed in the picture to see that it was already translated but it was very small and at the bottom. I wish I could go with them to the resort but there are no kids allowed

Derek's Stories and My meetings

Derek is now home for christmas break. He has this friend up there that is mexican. He is a wrestler and he is ranked number 1 in the state of Iowa Divison 3. His name is Daniel Mendoza. Derek says he is pretty cool. Also this is one of my meetings with a mexican. He played on the same team I did for AAu. His name was Daniel Vega. He was a bug guy and fun to be around. We had some good times when we were on tournaments.

FELIZ NAVIDAD!

My family and I were in the car over the weekend and the song Feliz Navidad came on the radio. I asked my brother, Lucas if he even knew what Feliz Navidad was and of course, he said "yeah, it means Feliz Navidahhh!" i laughed and explained to him that it was Spanish for Merry Christmas and now he says Feliz Navidad all the time!

Translator: Wrong!

I'm sitting at home watching the show Friends with my brother Heath and someone says Hola! and Heath says that he knows what they said, and is talking all big about how he know Spanish. So what do I do? I start throwing out random Spanish words and Heath thinking he is big stuff is trying to think of what I am saying, but he can't so he gets the computer and goes onto some Spanish to English translator and types in Como Estas? and it come up with, I don't even know what it was but it was definitely wrong, and he said that it was not so I had to get out my Spanish notes from Spanish 1 and prove him wrong.

Real Spanish

I got to talk to my cousin's aunt a while ago. She is mexican and lives by the border in Mexico. She doesn't know a lot of English so my cousin, who is also mexican, translated for us. It was interesting hearing Spanish from her and trying to figure out what she was saying. She talked about how violent the border is and it made me realize how safe we really are in Iowa.

A couple months ago I was playing MW2. I got into a game lobby and there were some spanish speaking people in the lobby. I said hola me llamo Pablo and they started talking back in spanish. I couldn't understand everything they were saying but I could understand bits and pieces of what they said. It was cool to hear what they said but after that they got mad and left the lobby because I was dominating.

Daughters determination

I was walking the streets in Galena Illinois about two weeks ago. It was very cold but the trees behind the buildings were really pretty. Well worth it. Anyway, I walked into a clothing store, trying to warm up and litterally walked in on a mother and daughter's argument over clothes. The funniest thing was they switched from english to spanish. It was harder to follow but much more entertaining when I actually knew what they were screaming. The poor clerk had no idea. It was a very fun day. >.<''

Hunting Clothes

This weekend I went hunting. I did get one doe but that is not the point of this blog. While I was on the four wheeler and got all muddy. I thought great I am going to have to wash my clothes. That night while I took all of my equipment out of my orange coat I went to the washer and looked for the English version of the washing directions. First I looked on the tag on the neck, all I could find was Spanish and other languages. I thought this was America where we speak english, I did find the directions later but it was at the bottom of the coat where it was hard to find.

One time when i was with my dad and my grandpa and my grandpa girlfriend we went to a Mexican restaurant and I found out that she could speak spanish. She started to speak really fast and I could almost find out what she was saying. After that she started to talk about how she helped the police translate one time and it took forever and after it was done she had like 500 hundred dollars.

Mexican Restaurant

Today we went to the mexican restaurant in manchester for my birthday lunch. My parents took me. I told them that I wanted to go there because I love the food and haven't been there in a long time! They sang happy birthday to me in spanish of course and it's just cool to think that they celebrate birthdays the same way we do, and yes we each have our different ways of doing it but the singing part is the same and instead of cake, they give fried ice cream which is really good! Even though we are different from them we are also the same. The food was really good too, I got a chicken quesadilla and it was fantastic! I wonder if they eat american food too? It's a lot easier to understand what their trying to say because of sitting in spanish class with their accents and all.

Spanish in Church

Last weekend when I went to church in Delhi, their was a pamphlet on the end of the pew. When father was talking I grabed the pamphlet and started reading it. I was just thinking it would be some prayers, but when I flipped it over the other half was in spanish. I was supprised because I never thought I would see spanish in church. I started reading it. The pamphlet had spanish on one side and english on the other. I found out what some holy spanish words were. I found out that prayer was oración in spanish and that amar is to love in spanish. I understood some of the spanish on the pamphlet. I had flip it over for some of the bigger spanish words. It did keep me occupied most of church. At the end of church I took the pamphlet out thinking that it would be a good thing to blog about. This just shows that spanish is everywhere no matter where you are