I wrote an article on Carnaval that was published in DePaul's newspaper. It was supposed to simply be on DePaul's reaction to Carnaval, but the only thing most of them talked about how was how commercialized it was. To be honest, I'm not sure if I necessarily agree. Yes, it was, but it wasn't surprising. I didn't see many people drunk at the parades, but here is the article:
http://media.www.depauliaonline.com/media/storage/paper1414/news/2010/02/22/News/Students.Rock.Carnaval-3876226.shtml
In other news, DePaul's newspaper is yet again an award-winning newspaper! I don't know if anyone remembers, but back in November the Chief Editor, Charlotte Erikson emailed me telling me DePaul had submitted my Disney Princess article in the contest for best feature story. Here's the article:
The DePaulia takes home ICPA awards
Cheryl Waity
Issue date: 2/15/10 Section: News
The 2009-2010 DePaulia staff received several awards from the Illinois Collegiate Press Association (ICPA) on Feb 20 . These awards included a third place in the category of General Excellence for the work on the 2009 issues of The DePaulia.
Other top honors included a first place in in-depth reporting and news reporting for the collective coverage of Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid and a third place ranking in news reporting for the work of Charlotte Eriksen and Jason Shough on "DePaul mourns."
The DePaulia received a total of 10 awards from the ICPA competition including several in photography and column writing.
But yeah. I think I may pull an Elaine Benes and do something about these dogs. I can't take it anymore. And this is coming from a girl that has a cat who never stops meowing. This is like nothing I have experienced before. They don't stop howling right outside of my bedroom window at all hours. The family got rid of one of them, he was the one loudly barking, but the howling chiwawas are still here. I have never experienced a dog to howl so frequently and so loudly before. To put this in perspective of how bad their howling is... I also step in their pee on a day to day basis which is absolutely no big deal in relation to their barking. Ay dios mio.
My computer class is going really well. I can't remember if I wrote earlier about how we took the kids soccer team and a couple of my computer students to Carnaval last week. It was an absolute blast. While it was raining the whole time, and in order to get seats we had to sit in the pouring, freezing rain for nearly 3 hours before the parade started, it was nonetheless worth it. I bought a trash bag and used it to form a tent for my camera and tripod and took a bunch of pictures. I'm starting to get really close with my students. They always formerly address me as Maestra (teacher), ask to use the bathroom, and raise their hands in class. Yep, its the real deal. Their computer skills have improved exponentially since the class began. In the beginning they could not double click for the life of them and it took them about 10 minutes to type a five letter word. But now their computer skills are much less n00b and far more 1337. Last week they made the most beautiful power points!
In two days we are leaving for Chiapas and will be gone for 5 days. I'm very excited!
Today my Spanish teacher asked me if I could go to a class tomorrow and teach the Mexican students about English prepositions. Apparantly English prepositions are extremely weird and complicated and even teachers here have difficulty understanding them. Class starts at 7:15 AM. I'm pretty nervous and have no idea why my teacher asked me of all people to do this. Just because I speak English doesn't mean I can understand it! And not only that, my Spanish is NOT GREAT. I'm really not sure why I was selected to do this, but yeah. Wish me luck!
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