Unexpected Latin Remix

The other day I was downloading a music on my iPod and I came across a song that I wanted so clicked download with out looking at the words in parenthesis. I continued browsing for more songs while it downloaded. When it was finally finished I went and listened to it and it was in English so I figured it was all in English. I continued browsing for more songs and about half way through the song a guy jumped in and started seeing in Spanish. Confused I went and looked at the name and it said "Official Latin Remix" so I kept it.

When the FFA went to the state convention, we saw many people and things. It only stands to reason that in Ames we would hear some people speaking Spanish. We were on our way to the convention hall, we had just gotten out of the elevator in our hotel, and we heard someone speaking a foreign language. Immediately we recognized it as Spanish. We all looked at each other and kinda laughed, because they were talking so fast, we could hear little snippits of the conversation, but we could recognize some of the words they were saying! It was amusing, hearing how fast they could speak and still understand what the other was saying! It kinda blew my mind! I hope someday I will be able to talk that fast!

Shopping

Me and my mom were shopping two weekends ago when we ran into a mother and daughter. The mother was talking to her daughter in spanish and was telling her that she could only get one of the three shirts that she had picked out. They walked away and later we met them at the check out again and my mom asked me what they were saying and I couldn't tell because they were talking fast and I didn't recognize the words.

World War 1

World War 1

Today in World History we were talking about World War 1. Mr. Huegel told us that the Germans didn't want the U.S. in the war so they sent Mexico a coded letter telling them to attack the United States. Thinking about that, if Mexico would have attacked us think about how history would have changed, think about how the relationship of the U.S. and Mexico would be today. Things would be so much different and I'm glad they didn't attack us because we are so close to them and we have a lot of common.

Spanish music

Every other day I have study hall with Jenna Beitz. She usually plays music off of her Ipod while we do our homework. One day while her Ipod was on shuffle, a spanish song came on. The song "El beso del Final" was playing and we were wondering if all spanish songs were the same type and beat, so we looked them up. I liked the music we heard, it sounds different then our (besides the language). It had a different beat, some was more up beat than ours and they seem to have more emotion in their songs than ours.

Spanish

Me and my brother always talk Spanish when we don't wish for anyone in the room to know what we are saying.  It infuriates my other brother because he says this is America so if I want to speak Spanish I should go down to mexico and speak it there.  Randomly I will also talk Spanish to my dad and he will counter that with some German he learned in his youth.  This is maddening to me because whenever I ask him to teach me some he refuses and yet when I make him made with Spanish I offer to teach him some but he ultimately refuses that to.

Spanish people shopping

On Sunday I had to work. I was at the register and checking out this hispanic family. They had a couple pairs of clothes and some food. It was hard to understand cause when working the register you have to try to make the customer feel welcome and make small talk with them. They spoke in Spanish the whole time and I only understood alittle of it. I heard some words that we have learned and kinda was able to pick out what they may have been talking about to their kids.

I work at the Golden Stardust.  My and Jose wash dishes there. Our boss, Jim, gives each of us Hispanic names. I am Manuel. Jose is Carlos. Alaina Feltes is Rosarita. Jim says we are his Mexican workers. The End.

Mexican Food

My family and I were at someone house last Monday and they were making food and one thing the made was a Mexican food and i forgot what they called it but it looked weird. I didn't want to try it because I don't like a lot of different foods. Like Chinese, Mexican, or stuff like that. They insist that I try it, they said, "It tastes better than it looks." So I decided to just try it so they would shut up. When I tried it I made sure I had something to drink close by. I tasted it and it didn't taste bad but it's not something I could eat a lot of or eat very often if I would eat it again. That was probably the first thing I ever tried that was like really Mexican besides like tacos and chips and dip.

So for my blogs I just googled hispanic to get an idea of what to blog about and this website for hispanic heritage. Its a cool website that lets you look at the history and people in the spanish world. there is even a memory game on it.  Yes it is designed for younger kinds but the first time I played the game the word sandia came up and without even having to look at the picture I knew what it was.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/index.htm
And another game that I have found to do to study my spanish Is the free rice game. which is fun. but you already have that one on your website! which is how I found it!(:

My little brothers were watching Dora one time and it was Dora's birthday on that particular episode and at the very end they sang happy birthday. It was the happy birthday that we sing in class but they added more to it kinda like how we do with ours sometimes. I thought it was interesting because I knew a few of the words but I didn't know enough to fully understand the context of what they were singing.

My little brother Preston just turned four! one day I was doing my Spanish homework and he was like sissy I want to learn your words. Which he normally says when I'm doing homework and I told him they are not just normally words mom and dad speak but he was insistant I teach him new words. So I taught him to say hola me llamo Preston. It took him forever to figure out and keep in his mind exactly what to say but he got the hang of it after awhile and ran around the house saying it. Since then I have taught him a few words but he doesn't really remember them. I have been teaching him colors lately but I lose his attention quickly. ):

 My new favorite Spanish song is Danza Kuduro by Don Omar. It's a really up beat song with lots of girls in the music video, but thats besides the point. The first time I had heard this song was at a Cedar Rapids Kernals game. A Hispanic player for the Kernals had it as his warm up song. Whenever he was up I was up dancing. Haley didn't like that too much. The song translates like this put your hands up moving only the hips turn half around dance the Kuduro don't lose your breath now because this has just started Move your head dance the Kuduro. It's a great song I would recommend that everyone listen to it.

Black Ops

Me and Martinez play a game called Call of Duty Black Ops, which takes place during the cold war and in parts of Cuba.  Before taking Spanish class I had no idea what they were saying, but now I know what the Cubans were saying.  In the game, people yell, "Sacalo Papeles!"  which means get the paper, but I have no idea why they would say that.  I can also understand lots of other Spanish sayings in the game and I am glad I can understand it.  (I can't upload a picture from my computer it says error so here is a link.) BLACK OPS

Hair Dye

The other day my mom was dying her hair and I was looking at the instructions.  It had both english and spanish.  I tried to figure it out and then I would look at the english side and see if i was right.  I got a few right.  It had lavarse in it and cabello.  I thought it was interesting that they used cabello instead of pelo for hair.  It was also interesting that on the box I couldn't find any spanish but the instructions came in both english and spanish.  It's cool knowing another language.

Spanish Soccer

Last Night I was talking to a girl from Monticello that I know and she plays on their schools soccer team. She was talking about the next time we would see eachother and I mentioned we had a track meet there next thursday and she said she had a soccer game at West Liberty or somewhere and she was like their team is all mexicans. She said that when they play them they speak spanish on the feild. She said to play a joke because she is of asian of chinesse decent (not for sure exactly which one) she would speak in jibberish and they would look at her funny and be like "no say". She said it was best playing them and to get to play those jokes on them.

Spanish is Everywhere

I was in the shower one day and I was grabbing my shampoo bottle and I looked at it and realized that there was spanish on it. I started reading it and then I compared what I thought it was saying to the english. It's so weird to know another language and tell what it's trying to say. Also it's weird that you can read something in spanish and some spanish people could be trying to read the english side to see if they can understand it. I love knowing another language and having the opportunity to learn it and someday use it. I want to be a teacher so being able to say that I know spanish could help me in the long run.

Spanish at the movies

A few months ago my dad and I went to Act  of Valor in Dubuque. The movie was intense and full of action. It even had Spanish in it! The movie is about a team of active duty Navy Seals that have to stop these people from smuggling bombs into major US cities. Towards the end of the movie The Navy Seals had to coax the mexicans to give them the bombs but they wouldn't so their was a huge fire fight. I tried to listen to see if I could understand them but they were talking really fast so I just read the subtitles. So to be in an elite part of the military you have to know many languages.  

Excellent Teacher

I was over at my friends house and she has a cousins that are Mexican.  They are the ages 14,19 and 3.  The littlest one was learning his colors so I thought I would help.  They speak no English at all.  We got his book out of his mom's bag and I pointed to colors.  It was so cute because he would yell out the color in Spanish and we would laugh and he would hide his face because he was embarrassed.  Some of the colors he needed help saying and didn't know very well.  One was amarillo, he couldn't get yellow at all.  I wanted to teach him the English words of the colors but I didn't want to confuse them.

Recently my spanish speaking aunt came up from Texas with my uncle for my grandmas birthday. While they were up here, I had walked into my grandmas house and she was on the phone. The next thing I knew she was speaking spanish. I tried to listen in on what she was saying but she was so fast and snappy I couldnt understand what she had said. It just shows how fluent she is and the experience she has at speaking spanish, It gave me a headache so I left.

The other night I watched the movie from prada to nada. Its about these girls who are mexican that lose all their money and have to move into the hispanic part of L.A. The cool thing was when they would walk around the neighborhood and you could see all the store signs. Like they went past a gas station and I saw a big sign that said con plomo and I knew that it meant leaded and they celebrate a mexican holiday in the movie and it was cool to watch because they got all dressed up in nice clothes and ate a bunch of food. The food looked Amazing!!!!

While some of the MV FFA chapter was in Ames for state convention, when we went out to eat there was a table of spanish speaking people, I tried to understand what they were saying but I had noidea! I listen to them for a looooooong time trying to figure at least a little bit of what they were talking about, then I remembered that we were told that there were different types of spanish in the world and I got the feeling they were speaking on I didn't know.

When the FFA went to the state convention, we saw many people and things. It only stands to reason that in Ames we would hear some people speaking Spanish. We were on our way to the convention hall, we had just gotten out of the elevator in our hotel, and we heard someone speaking a foreign language. Immediately we recognized it as Spanish. We all looked at each other and kinda laughed, because they were talking so fast, we could hear little snippits of the conversation, but we could recognize some of the words they were saying! It was amusing, hearing how fast they could speak and still understand what the other was saying! It kinda blew my mind! I hope someday I will be able to talk that fast!

'bano'

I have come to notice that the only time that I ever can tell what mexicans are talking about is the bathroom 'bano'. I think it has to do with that they talk so stinking fast! I think its crazy how fast they talk but, I guess it is like when we talk really fast in english and we dont even know that we are really doing it. I is most likely the same with them. But why the word bano stands out to me I have noidea. It could be the fact that I ask to go the bathroom a lot.

Court House

When I was at the court house there was a mexican family in there. They were so cute, short and a little chubby, I could tell that they didn't speak very good english, and the person trying to help they didn't know spanish. The dad was trying to comunicate with the lady, but it wasn't going to well. The mother of the family was looking around like she was nervous and her son was saying mama mama mama, I guess I was kinda staring at them when she looked at me and said bano? bano? I was like YES!!! I know what she wants so I showed her the bathroom. My day was complete. Even if that is the only time that I have to help someone that speaks spanish I can say my spanish came in handy!

Wal-Mart

With the construction of the new walmart in Manchester, there are mexicans working there and they speak Spanish. I was in Wal-mart with Nicole E, we were walking back by the pharmisty and there was a group of Spanish speaking guys in the middle of a large group. While we were walking by they were talking and smiling while looking at us, of coarse we thought they were talking about us, and I know that you say that they are most likely not talking about us but I swear they were. haha. (:

Mexico

Last year when we went to mexico with the Huber's we had so much fun!  After we got home the kids were already planning another trip together.  Even the parents agreed that we should go on another trip when I graduate.  We were debating either Florida or Mexico again.  Both sounded fun but Mexico won! We decided that we would go to mexico the year that I will graduate, but we will go to a different resort.  We have not stopped talking about it and we can't wait!  The warm weather, the good food, and the nice, friendly people.  I hope we can make this trip even more fun then the last one!

el mexicano blog

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Espanol Blog

      Just the other day I was in the dentist office in Manchester getting my teeth cleaned.  I noticed in the other room that the hygenist was talking but the young patient wasn't talking.  I started to run through the scenarios of why he was not talking, one he was extremely shy or didn't speak English.  My answer was soon found when he suddenly said, "No, porfavor."  I smiled to myself and thought the hygenist could be a little richer ih she could speak to him.  I learned another life lesson on being bilingual.

spanish yeah

When we whent on vacation to florida we had to get used t dealing with just about every race imaginable. When we went to the flea market the amount of hispanics there was un real but the kool thing is that i could pick out some of the things that they were saying so it was nice to be able to understand some spanish #spanishyeah

Spanish While Working

I was working on my truck last weekend.  I was installing lights on my roll bars.  I looked at the switch that my stepdad bought for me, and I saw that it had spanish translations on it.  So, I tried to test my spanish skills before reading the English even though I already knew it was a switch.  But, from reading the spanish, I found out that it was only supposed to be used for lights.  I was impressed at how good I got at spanish over the last year and a half.

Last tuesday me and my girlfriend went to the mexican restaurant in manchester and we each got the borrito things. I got the chicken one and she had gotten the beef one. Well we sat there and we enjoyed our supper and once we were ready for the check our waiter brought to us. He was very nice about everything and when i went up to pay i only had twenty in cash and they i was goiung to pay the restin debit but the debit card was not working and i sat there and i felt so stupid but the nice waiter justtold us to bring the rest in nexttime we come and he told us to have a good day. Thatwas the nicest waiter i have ever been around.

George lopez is my idol. The other day i was sitting on the couch with my girlfriend atour apartment and we were watching george lopez. We both have taken spanish so we kinda had a little fun and when george lopez gets upset or something he always speaks in  spanish so me and my girlfriend sat there and everytime he would speak a sentence or two in spanish we would try and see if we could figure out what it was that he was saying and we, i dont think did to bad. Knowing spanish was very interesting for the rest of the night. She kept trying to tell me to do things in spanish and it was not going to bad because she knows more than i do but i just kept saying repeaten porfavor? haha! it was pretty funny!

So the other day I was working as a server at pizza hut and these four mexicans came in and got 2 large pizzas and three bread sticks. They could kind of speak english but not very well. I honestly think they were the same ones i seen in Wal-mart in my last post. They were ordering their food and they would pretty much say every other world in spanish but luckely i caught on enough to place their order and serve them everything they had asked for. They would try and speak english with me but when I would walk away they would start speaking spanish and They were saying bien a lot so I took that as either i am being a good waiter or the food was good, or maybe even both. That made my day and it was a little entertainment for me at work.

my dad and linda

Me and my dad went to a mexican restaurant and my aunt linda translates spanish for the cops. When she ordered she talked in spanish and it was very very fast and i only picked up a few things. The waiter didn't talk as fast as my aunt i guess thats because she is used to talking to everyone in english.

going to walmart

Yesterday I went to walmart with my mom and sister to get my dad a new gril. When we were looking at the the grils there was this family next to us that was talking in spanish about the same gril we were looking at. They were talking so fast but I could understand some of the words they were saying like it looks nice and how much is it. I told my mom that I new what they were saying and she just smiled.

Telemarketers

Last week I was at home watching T.V. and the home phone rang. I usually don't pick it up because it is usually telemarketers. I thought this time would be different, but it wasn't. I picked it up and the person on the other line was speaking very bad english. I could tell he was hispanic so i decided to speak spanish to him. I said me llamo Jesus and when he heard that he went into road gear! I have never heard someone talk that fast. I picked up a few words like bien and hablo. I then told him goodbye and hung up. It felt good that I knew that much Spanish, and can almost have a conversation with someone who speaks Spanish that fluent.

Toothpaste

   
Today, I was searching for Spanish around my house to write about in my blog. When I was brushing my teeth, I became curious on whether or not my Crest toothpaste tube had Spanish directions. As it turns out, it has a lot of Spanish on it! I tried to read as much as I could and I was surprised on how much of it I knew! Adultos y ninos de 2 anos o mayores: Cepille bien los dientes despues de cada comida. It's amazing how quickly I can translate this sentence. It says: Adults and children two years and older: Brush teeth well after meals. I feel like Spanish is getting easier and easier the more time I spend learning it. I really think that Spanish will come in handy now and later in life!

Dairy Queen

On Monday Beia and I went to Dairy Queen in Manchester. After we ordered we went to go find a seat in a booth. While we were sitting there, Beia said, "The people behind us are speaking Spanish!" We tried eavesdropping and figuring out what they were saying. We did get some of the conversation, but not all of it. They were talking super fast! It's exciting to listen to spanish speaking people because that could be us someday.

I Love Lucy

Last weekend I was watchin I Love Lucy with my grandparents! Lucy's husaband is hispanic and his mother is coming to visit. When she arrives Lucy, who does not know any Spanish, is the only one home. She tries to communicate through actions but neither of them can understand the other. Lucy hears a work that her mother in law says and realizes that it is a cognate and they start to understand each other. It was interesting to see how they tried to communicate