BLOG POSTING GUIDELINES

If you have completed the QUIA workbook and laboratory exercises and have attended "La mesa de Español", and you need more minutes to satisfy your lab requirement (100 minutes a week), you can do any of the following activities for minutes and post your comments in the blog:
  • Película/Programa de TV: Watch movies/TV shows in Spanish and write a short show or movie about them (a brief explanation of the show and your opinion about it) 50-75 words – worth 50 minutes of labtime,
  • Ex. Title format: Película: "El Laberinto del Fauno" (50 lab minutes minutes)
  • Evento: Attend an event related to Hispanic culture and write your comments about it 50-75 words and post pictures in your blog. – worth 100 minutes of lab. Ex.Title format: Evento: "Hispanic fest St. Louis" (100 lab minutes)
  • Otro: If you have any other ideas/suggestions, check with your instructor to see if this will count as lab minutes.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Película: Maria Full of Grace

I recently sat down and watched Maria Full of Grace. The movie was made in 2004 and was directed and written by Josh Marston. The movie is about a woman from Columbia, Maria Alvarez, who is forced to work in a sweat shop to support her family. Maria is faced with some very difficult situations, which forces her to quit her job. She looks for a new job when she is offered a position to transfer drugs. This will make her a lot of money, but is very dangerous. The job requires her to swallow a capsule full of drugs and she is ordered to transfer them to New York City. Maria Full of Grace is a heartbreaking story. The amount of pain and suffering Maria has to go through is awful. It is a very good and interesting film though. I watched this movie at home, but I think the SIUE Foreign Language Lab was offering it to watch for lab minutes! I recommend that everyone watches this movie!

-Ashley Kurtz
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