I finally got to watch the movie mentioned at the beginning of my blog "A Better Life", it took a long time and lots of effort to locate it and find time to watch it. This movie was a realistic look on immigration to the US from Mexico and the challenges that take place, I am not going to give details because I would encourage everyone to watch it yourself. I was informative and touching at the same time, I learned some more about the culture about a proud people.
While having a conversation at work with a person from Costa Rica about the challenges of going to college in the US she mentioned the Hispanic Heritage Council at work. I checked into it, and the Council had a Spanish conversation hour on Friday. I went to the meeting which was held over the lunch hour, it was really cool to see how organized they were. One person is in charge of picking a topic and organizing the meeting. There was a person from Tempe Arizona on the video conference system who learned Spanish from Rosetta Stone. They had expected to have guests from Guatemala also but the technology wasn't cooperating so we never got to communicate with them. The impetus of the meetings is for people to practice and speak better Spanish. There was 19 people in the room, I was the only one with no Spanish speaking experience. There was a women from Argentina, a guy from Peru and one from Brazil who helped to keep people on track with their language skills and also told stories about the politics of their countries. They mostly talked Spanish the entire time, I was surprised that I could even tell what the topic was from time to time. This was a great group and I can see myself going back again
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