Week 9

This past week in class we have been working on our own short stories in the past tense.  The one struggle I had was that I automatically wanted to write in nosotros form, but I made my story written in 3rd person, therefore several times throughout my writing, I went back and fixed my verb conjugation.  Aside from that, I enjoyed writing the story.  I think the length was just the right amount to where we were not stressed, which I greatly appreciate - Gracias Doctora!  For my story I incorporated various cartoons that I used to watch as a kid.  The Magic School Bus was the first cartoon that I introduced to the story.  As cheesy as the show was, it was great to watch in class, almost as good as Bill Nye.  The next character I introduced was Eliza Thornberry.  I loved this show and it makes me laugh to see the show now.  When writing my story I went back to recall my memory, and it's interesting to see the shows 10 years later.  Eliza lead us to some camels.  Next we found Dexter, from Dexter's Laboratory.  Originally this part of my story - the one that Jemma edited - was in a different direction than I ended up with.  This rose a small issue, solely because I wanted to incorporate more characters, but the more characters and action I had in the story, the less descriptive the story itself was.  Therefore I changed it and took out Scooby-Doo. The last group of characters I have in the story is the PowerPuff Girls.  As a fun fact - they recently added the PowerPuff Girls and Magic School Bus to Netflix!  Back to my story, Jemma helped with my decision to take out some parts of my story because she mentioned it felt like it was moving very fast - this was the best advice I received from the peer-editing. 


With regards to the story I read by Maya, it was a very nice, short story that got right to the point while giving some suspicion.  It was about two gemelos, or twins, who turned out to be sirens in the end, but were both unlike anyone in their towns in Cuba.  Due to this, they ended feeling a connection to each other, which is why one of them traveled to the other side of Cuba to travel with his mother and felt a need to go to the ocean, which was both him and his twin sisters favorite place.  This is where they met and walked into the sea in the end.  I liked her use of repetition the most to show how the twins were connected, but I mentioned to her that she should use more transition words to help the story flow.
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Cuando escribí mi cuento, pensé en dibujos animados españoles.  Cuando estaba en Costa Rica, mi hermana tica miraba Dora the Explorer cada mañana.. fue un poco raro porque en los Estados Unidos, Dora es para aprender español, pero allí todo el programa fue en español, así que todavía no entiendo el punto.  Cuando busqué pinturas de Dora en español, yo encontré este foto, que de nunca he pensado.  ExploraDORA es donde Dora tiene su nombre.


Otra cosa que me gusta es el Buzzfeed Tamarindo sobre cosas españolas.  Yo encontré un articulo sobre la comida.  Aunque es en ingles, pienso que es bueno por mi blog porque significa la cultura.  El articulo se llama "An Open Letter to the Taquero, The Greatest Human in the World."  Tiene 15 puntos sobre el Taquero.  Lo que me gusta más es el punto sobre los carnes diferentes.  Me encanta pastor, pero solamente puedo tener en México o Frontera porque otros restaurantes no tienen lo mismo especie.  

Pero cuando estaba en México, yo traté alambres, que son como fajitas pero un poco más desordenados.  
Me encanta ls comida del calle porque tiene muchísimo sabor!  Mira el queso, tocino, cebollas, limón verde y todo. Que riquísimo!  Son las cosas pequeñas que son mejores.