Tag: Spanish 1

For the past few weeks, our Spanish class has been reading the book Pobre Ana Moderna. This story is about a girl named Ana who is fed up with her family and decides to go on a school funded trip to Mexico. To get there, she takes a flight from California to Guadalajara, and then another flight the rest of the way to her new temporary home in Nayarit. Our teacher assigned us two projects to go along with the reading of the story. The first project included a blank map, and we were tasked with labeling all important municipalities and their respective capitals in Mexico. With this, we also labeled populations of those cities. Our second project was to create a slideshow or Pinterest board of 10 places to go or things to do in Mexico, two of these had to be from Nayarit. What surprised me about this project was the rich culture in Mexico and the history behind many of its ancient structures and museums, and the geography was strange if you look at the population differences between cities. Two places that I would travel would be Oaxaca and Mexico City. Mexico City is the capital of Mexico and the most populated city in Mexico. With a giant capital building, numerous thrift stores, and great food around the area, there would be almost no reason not to visit on your way to another city. I chose Oaxaca for the celebration of Dia de Los Muertos or Day of the Dead in English. There is a major celebration that goes on in this city every year, which makes it a major tourist attraction.