November 29th
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In episode 5 of Season 1 of "El Internado", it starts by Hector jogging and finding a dead body by the lake. He calls the cops and they assume that dead body belongs to Mr. Montoya. The students start to become worried because Montoya had the only evidence of the dead, missing orphans. They group sneaks off to the lake to see the dead body themselves. They come across the well which has been boarded up so no one go down there. A man in the woods catches them and tells the principal.  While Hector is lecturing about rebellion, he calls the six of them out. He tells them not to rebel unless they have a legitimate reason. He punishes them and put them on cleaning duty.  Carolina is questioning her relationship with Ivan. She stares at his picture a lot, reflecting. Ivan notices and gets upset. Victoria tries to comfort him but he walks off. She looks for him in the bathroom and somehow gets trapped. Gas begins to seep out through the pipes but luckily she gets out safely. Later, they receive a call from Montoya, telling them that he lost the evidence and he is still alive. They don't know how to feel about this information.  They decide to investigate the situation.On the other hand, Evelyn falls into a well and breaks her arm. Amelia is in big trouble because she was responsible for her. Her mother threatens to get the government involved.  Elsa decides that they should fire Amelia, but Hector doesn't think that is necessary.  The school decides to get stricter security. Jacinta burns the letter she sent to her daughter.  She gave her daughter up and now she doesn't want a relationship with her. Maria is making progress with getting close to her son. Hector's and Elsa's relationship is at a low.

I also spent an hour with a tutor. We are working on writing with a specific prompt. She would give me a list of nouns and adjectives and I would have to write a paragraph using those words.

November 14th
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  I watched S1 E4 of "el Internado."  Their group decides to go back to the well so they can open the door. They are hesitate to this this because they met with Alfonso's friend,  who is a journalist. He said that he and Alfonso have been investigating the five missing orphans. He informs them that Alfonso is probably dead and that there is no one that they can tell because they won't believe them. Also, the creatures will punish them if they tell anyone.  Despite all of this, they all end up in the well. They discover a film, which showed all five of the orphans dead. The door slams close and locked them in there but the door opens again and they run out and climb out of the well. Marcos stays behind so he can grab the film so that the journalist can use it as evidence. Then, they return back to school.  Meanwhile,  Paula is sad because everyone in her class receives a letter from their parents except her. She comes to the conclusion that her parents are dead or else they would have written her. She talks to Hector and he tells her that her parents are in heaven. He tells her that heaven is a wonderful place far, far away,  across the ocean.  He also reads her the story of Robinson and how he sent a message in a bottle. She decides to send her parents a message in a bottle. During a class field trip, she tosses her bottle in a lake in hopes that it gets to heaven. A creature takes the letter and send Paula a fish in return. Jacinta later discover the creature and it hands her the letter. Jacinta tells the creature it shouldn't get attached to Paula. Fermin finds out information about Hector from his finger print. He finds out the code to Hector's safe and steals a piece of paper. Maria is trying to improve her grammar. Hector notices her determination and he takes on teaching her. He get closer to Maria and Jacinta suspects that he likes her. Elsa is upset because Hector isn't showing her attention.  Elsa has a side affair with Pedro but he wants to break it off because he found someone he is interested in.  Maria catches the kissing and uses this information to her advantage. Maria also finds out that her son thinks his mom committed suicide.

I spent an hour on Duolingo working on possessives, occupations and adverbs

November 7th
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43 minutes- I watched a Netflix show in Spanish called La Viuda Negra . This show was about a woman who dominated the cocaine world in New York City. At the beginning we find she is given the death penalty because she committed numerous crimes in order to save her son who had been kidnapped. There were brief flashback of her teen life that led up to that moment in the episode. Lastly all of her  accomplices devised a plan to help her escape her death.

20 minutes- I reviewed the differences in preterite verses and  imperfect tense in a workbook. I refreshed my memory on how the preterite tense is used when the activity in the past is specified, and imperfect tense is used when there is a general statement about the past. For example, if you wanted to say "Yesterday I lost my dog" you would use preterite tense and say "Ayer yo perdí mi perro."

15 minutes- The last activity I did was review my reflexive verbs in the same workbook. It was kind of confusing because this only applied when the subject's actions affected themselves. However, the exercise in the workbook helped me to get the information back in my system. An example would be if I said "At night I take a bathe" it would translate into " En la noche me baño."

November 1st
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I watched season 1 episode 3 of "el Internado." It started off with them looking for Marcos because he disappeared in the closest.  Paula heard their conversation and she's afraid. Marcos appears from the closet and discovered a trap door that leads to the attic. There, they discover a jar of eyes and 5 names carved in a beam. They reveal that the school used to be an orphanage. They find an article and noticed that 5 people when missing from the orphanage and those were the names carved on the beam. Meanwhile,  Paula is convinced that her brother is missing and Evelyn suggest that he went a way to a secret island with her parents. Paula plans to leave but Marcos finds her just as she was about to walk out. Marcos goes on the roof and saves Ivan when he slips and almost falls off the edge. Marcos discovers a sketch book, owned by one of the missing people. It has creepy drawing of weird animals and some hints. The teens decide they want to quit the search except Marcos and Carolina. They use a clue from the sketch book that calls a well, "the door." They go down the well and some throws down the rope and covers the well. Carolina is freaking out and Marcos comforts her. They kiss and that's when Ivan discovers them. He pulls the out the well, but is obviously hurt by what he saw. He goes to the bathroom upset and Maria tries to comfort him. He denies her and is very disrespectful toward her. Carolina gets an email from Alfonso's friend to meet him in the cemetery at 11. She goes and someone captures her. After Marcos stood Paula up she goes to find him on the secret island. Some unknown driver picks her up, claiming he knows where to go. Later, when Marcos goes to bed with, she appears possessed. On the side, Fermi takes a fingerprint on a mug and gives it to a man. Jacinta birthday is coming up and as a present, Hector gives a ticket to see her family. She doesn't have a good relationship with her daughter but they don't know that.  Maria later finds out this information and they set out to find her . They find her at a bus stop alone and tells her that they need her back at school. Hector's fiancée is upset with him because he keeps standing her up

I spent an hour on Duolingo, learning adjective to build my vocabulary.