Seis

Counting in spanish is difficult for me. After about thirty, I am totally lost. But this is good. It gives me something challenging and I appreciate that. Estoy divertido en la clase de español.

Tienes una divertida día.

Cinco

Hey hey hey! So these weeks have been flying by. I have been enjoying the class and talking to my other classmates. Tengo muy interesante amigos en la clase de español. This week we have been learning how to conjugate ser and estar and regular -ar verbs. I enjoy this and look forward to learning more.

Hasta luego.

Cuatro

This week in class we watched a movie that talked about the University in Mexico City. La Univerisdad es muy grande y bonita. I am only a sophomore at WT, but it got me to thinking about where I want to go after I have achieved my Bachelor's degree. I am an English major with an emphasis in writing. I do not want to teach just because, I figure by the time I am done with school, I don't want to continue to do it for the rest of my life. The University in Mexico City is beautiful and seems very exciting. I do not think that I will go to school in another country unless I am studying abroad. I will attend graduate school somewhere though and hopefully it is in a bigger city with more opportunities for myself. I want to be a freelance writer. I want to be able to write novels or essays and still write for national magazines like Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Spin, Paper, Paste, etc. Estudio ingles y literitura. 

Tres

Hola clase! So this is the end of my third week in class. And I am getting a little political, here we go...

"Mexicans are being hunted down and killed under Arizona's new immigration law, Mexican director Felipe Cazals said Friday as his latest work opened the San Sebastian film festival." - Full Story

Now, Mr. Cazals is a little wrong. Mexicans in Arizona are not being hunted down and killed per-say, but they are being hunted. Hunted by police and immigration officers. These Mexicans, whether they are citizens of the United States or in fact illegal immigrants are required to prove that they are citizens of the U.S. and can be pulled over by police at any time without probable cause. This, to me, seems like profiling. But after all this is not Political Science, it is just Spanish class. Until next time...

Hasta luego! Vivo en lunes.

Dos

This is one of my favorite songs by Patty Griffin. She is an American folk artist who writes and performs her own songs and writes songs for others. Me gusta Patty Griffin. I know that this song is called "My Kisses" or something of that nature. It is sung completely in Spanish and frankly, I only understand bits and pieces of it. She did not write this song. She covered it for her 2002 album, 1000 Kisses. I adore the way she sings and I think that her voice is even more beautiful while she sings in espanol. 

Uno

Soy llamo Caleb Baker. This is my first blog for my Elementary Spanish class at WTAMU. I am a sophomore at WT. I took Spanish for two years in middle school and for three years in high school so I remember quite a bit of it. I am an English major with an emphasis in writing. This week in class we learned how to introduce ourselves and others, how to tell time, and how to say numbers in Spanish among other things. I knew how to do most of these things, but I definitely needed a refresher. Eventually, I want to learn to speak Spanish fluently because I think that it is a beautiful language and I know that it could get me farther in life with different opportunities. I especially like the way we learn in this course. It seems to be more focused on how the language is spoken and how to use appropriate words without focusing on details like accents and articles for now.