January 25th
activity log

 I watched S2 E4 of "El Internado. " It starts off showing Fermin. He was shot in the last episode by an unknown person. He limps his way back to campus and manage to go the whole day without being caught. However, the next day Maria notices a trail of blood left behind by Fermin. Fermin gives her little information on the situation. She helps Fermin by getting painkillers and pulling the bullet out. He gets a call from a guy concerning a clock. The man tells him to meet him in the woods.  Fermin holds the man at gun point and led him to the stables for interrogation. Elsa and Hector go to the doctor and discover that they are having twins. The doctor is the son of her deceased mother's doctor. The doctor finds her mom old medical record and reveal that Elsa had a twin who either was stillborn or died shortly after. Elsa confronts her dad about it and he apologizes for not telling her because it was a low point in his life. Elsa takes it upon herself to visit her brother's grave and dig it up. When she opens it, it is empty. Hector finds out that Elsa let the new girl visit her father, which was against her mother's wishes. The mother visits the school, wanting to see her daughter but she still hasn't arrived from seeing her stepfather. After staling for awhile, the girl finally shows up. The mother wants to rekindle her relationship with her daughter but needs time to get over the situation. The daughter doesn't want a relationship with her mother because she is still upset that her mother separated them. Later, the new girl calls her mom and tell her that she can't leave the school during the break, however,  tells her stepfather to meet her in front of the school. Hector overhears the conversation and does allow the new girl to leave. He then, threatens the stepfather to stay away from her. The break is approaching and all the students are excited to be going home for a week. Ivan makes a joke in class and earned the who class a test. Mr. Montea discovers that someone snuck into his room and stole a test. He threatens to suspend the entire class and make them stay at school during the break. The new girl tells the teacher it was Ivan and Ivan is the only one who is punished. Ivan tells his friends it wasn't him but they don't believe him. Ivan was actually buying tickets to go out with Carolina.  He is hurt that she didn't believe him. However, he hands her a yearbook he stole from a table in the library. In the yearbook, is the orphans. Carolina shows Marcos a picture of Irene Espi. She looks exactly like his sister, Paula and they don't understand how.

My tutor made me write a couple sentences about  my friends.  She gave me vocabulary words and I had to use them in a sentence then read it back to her.

January 18th
activity  log

I watched S2 E3 of "El Internado." In this episode, Jacinta has returned better than ever. She is not aware of the changes that have been made because now Elsa is the principal .  We saw many flashbacks of Jacinta's past. It helps us understand why she dislikes Elsa so much. The man she was in love with had a baby with her and he made he get rid of the baby. The baby end up staying with the Jacinta's sister. The man disappears and he returns with a wife and a new baby. The baby is Elsa .  Jacinta gives Elsa a hard time because of this. There is a new girl at the school. She brakes the rules so they can expel her. She tried to run away on the first day but failed. Elsa walks her to the hallway after the new girl breaks another rule. She frames Elsa for slapping her and blackmail her saying she will report her to the Board if she does let her see her father. Elsa takes the bate and allows her to do so. We later find out that the new girl wants to spend time with her actual stepfather, who she is having an affair with. The group go to the attic to find the missing registries for the orphanage . They find the name they were looking for which was Irene Epsi. They found out that she was deceased .  There were a few more that were reported deceased .  All the orphans had a number beside their name. We find out that it's  their IQ and all the children with the highest IQ were dead which is suspicious .  Marcos and Carolina discover a safe in Alfonso's old room. His ring is the key to open it. Marcos owns the ring now and was able to open the safe. They didn't have time to look through it before they were caught. They left with an envelope filled with picks. The last picture is of Marcos' sister, Paula. This is ironic because Paula has the IQ of 152. Fermin email what he has been doing for the past years to some unknown person. He receives a text that says to met him by the lagoon at 11pm. When fermin arrives, someone shots him.

My tutor and I went over more of the preterite tense. She gave me some practice so i can get better at it.

January 10th
Summary #2

Cuando yo lei "9 caracteristicas de el verdadero hipster"en la primera vez yo no comprendi el articulo bien. No comprendi detalles o puntos principales buen, pero comprendi el idea principal, aproximadamente. Sin embargo, cuando yo lei el articulo de nuevo hoy, yo comprendo el idea principal mas. Tambien, yo comprendo algunos mas de los detalles. El articulo es sobre caracteristicas de necisitas a ser un "verdadero" hipster. El idea principal es ser uno hipster, necesitas nueve caracteristacas esencial. De acuerdo a el articulo, necesitas un bicicleta y un estilo de tu pelo muy a la moda.  Tambien, necesitas ropa con botones. Especialmente, necesitas el mejor de technologia-el movil o un computadora Manzana y usar muchas de los filtros de Instagram o Snapchat para dar una aparencia profesional. Finalmente, no admitas que tu es un hipster, porque los hipsters no le gusta ser una parte de el grupo. No acuerdo de todos "caracteristicas" en el articulo. Por ejemplo, el articulo dice " El libro siempre es mejor que la película." En mi experiencia, mas gente prefieran el libro que el pelicula, principalmente (son excepciones). Es un caracteristica de muchas gente-es no especial caracteristica de un hipster. Sin embargo, es un buen articulo y un lectura divertida. 

January 10th
Summary #1

En el artículo, "Proponen una ampliación de permisos de paternidad que deje al bebé estar 9 meses en casa," dice que La PPiiNA ha presentado un ley para los padres. En este ley ambos padres pueden tener el mismo tiempo con el bebé. Aunque es muy servicial, es un reforma muy costosa. También hay muchos problemas con la PPiiNA y los gentes. La reforma is siempre efectiva pero sólo para ciertas personas.

January 9th
activity log

I watched S2 E2 of "El Internado." The episode began with them watching the rest of the recording that their missing friend sent them. He mentioned things that resemble fireflies. After following them, someone comes up from behind him and harms him. That is how the video ended. Later on in the  episode, the friends go to the woods to retrace Cayetano, the missing friend, steps. They show us a preview of what actually happened. Cayetano followed the "fireflies", which were just lights. They led him to a monster who snuck up behind him and injected him with something. They find a clue carved in a tree about someone named Irene, the sister of one of the missing orphans.  Meanwhile, Hector quit and Elsa took the position as principal. Hector was persistent on not expelling the students with ecstasy found in their closets. Elsa, however, makes an agreement with the Board to not expel Marcos and they agree due to his family issues. Elsa told Hector to only worry about Marcos and Paula because he is their legal guardian. Ivan makes a deal to testify for his father if he takes him out of school and allows him to go to public school and live at home with his dad. Ivan's dad breaks the deal by transfering him to another boarding school. Ivan ends up testifying against his dad, sending him to jail. Maria finally admit the reason why she stole from Hector, which was to provide for her son, Ivan. Fermin is involved in some shady business with a man who got him out of jail. At the end of the episode, the student gather to protest the new rules of the school, which are very strict.

My tutor and I worked on  my speaking skill .  My prompt was to describe my day at school

January 4th
Quarter 3 reflection

I can happily say that I've  grown over Q2 by being able to recognize the preterite tense.  I already have present tense down and just a little bit of imperfect tense ( just need a little bit more practice) . In Q3, I can work on some of the other tenses like subjunctive, imperative and future tense. I also need to work on my speaking and listening skills because I'm not able to catch on as quickly as seeing the words on paper. I can achieve my goal by watching  movies and TV shows in Spanish to improve my listening skills.

January  4th
activity log

I watched season 2 episode 1 of "El Internado." We found out who the body discovered in the woods belong to. It was the friend of the group named Cayetano. They discovered that he died of drug overdose. Everyone is mourning over his dead, especially Hector. He thinks it is his fault and that he should have known something was up. He is supposed to be responsible for all the student at his school. He thinks that he failed and it takes a huge toll on him. Cayetano's friends think that someone could have drugged him because he wasn't that depressed that he would result to taking pills. In order to prevent something like this from happening again, Hector conducts a drug search. He goes through the belongings of every student and search the rooms. Hector finds drugs in all the closest of Cayetano's friends. They claimed that it wasn't theirs. Of course the adults didn't believe them. Their friend, Ivan, is also missing. They go into the secret passageway, in the library, to look for Ivan's body. When the return to the cage where they last found a pile of dead bodies, nothing is there. They try to find where they had been moved. They fail to find the bodies. We later find out that Ivan is alive. He asked Maria to bring him money. Since he is her son, Maria would do anything for him. She goes as far as stealing Hector's car and money she discovered in a drawer of his office. Hector spots her leaving in his car. He decides to trail her. He discovers Ivan and Maria and drives them back to the school. At the school, they are having a parent conference and the parents are upset .  The parents are demanding that he expels the students who had drugs in their room. Hector told them that they deserve a second chance .  Fed up with everything, Hector quits and Elsa is offered his job. Back in the dorms, Cayetano's friends are trying to unlock his phone. When they do, the find an unread message from the day of his death.  They open it and Cayetano is about to give us a clue on what happened when he went into the woods.

My tutor and I worked on presentational writing. She gave me a list of questions and I answered them in paragraph form.