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• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?

  I spoke with man from Mexico named Vidal. He actually messaged me first and I decided to continue the conversation.

• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

  I learned that he like sci-fi, mystery, romance, and just about every other kind of movies except for cartoons.We also talked about areas where I thought I needed work in Spanish. He gave me examples of times when certain tenses are used in everyday conversation. I also learned that he nearly perfected his English accent by listening to music.
  
  

• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?

  My goal was to find examples of when the subjunctive and imperfect tenses are used in everyday conversation. This conversation was some what helpful in meeting that goal. Vidal had some difficulty thinking of specific examples, but was able to give me a few that helped me get the general idea.
  

• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?

  I did well with being able to reply in Spanish and not pausing to ask what he meant or use the dictionary for every word I did not know. I was able to use context clues to get the general idea of what he was saying and respond. 
  

• What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)

  I still need to work on not using WordRefrence as much. I also need to solidify my understanding of ser v. estar. There was a  point in the conversation where I was confusing the two verbs.
  
  "Soy en colegio..."
  
  

Conversation

Me: What does Music look like in Puerto Rico? 

Mom: Es como aquí pero casi no hay canciones en ingles 

Me: Why is the beat different from other spanish speaking places to puerto rican music? 

Mom: Porque cada lugar tinei el clase de música y toda son diferente 

Me: Why don't people in puerto rico like music from other countries? is because of the grammar or pronunciation? 

Mom: Porque como las canciones y el clase de música es different porque haci es como las personas en Puerto Rico se crio. 

Me: Why are things pronounced different? 

Mom: Porque aveces las palabras se use diferente en mucho lugares y tiene diferente significado

Me: Why are their the same words but different meaning. 

Mom: Porque las personas se crio different y hoeyendo la mia y pai hablando haci y ell ss acostrunbro

How do you anticipate your partner will respond to your questions? 

I think that she (they) will tell me it's just the way it is and how they were raised

What are you looking forward to about this conversation?

To understand why are the same words have different meaning depending where you go in the spanish world.

What are you nervous about? 

Saying things wrong in spanish or not knowing how to say some words or the meaning of some words.

Reflection questions

• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?

My mother and my grandmother because spanish is their main language and they have a lot of experience with spanish

• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them? I learned that my grandmother knows no english what so ever and my mother knows just a little. I learned what i was asking them and why are things the way they are and said ect.

• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal? It helped me stop being lazy and finally asking them the questions that i wanted to ask them so it helped me finally understand.

• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? I finally understand why things are said the way they are and i understand why music is different and why people have their way of saying a word and others have their own way of saying it was just the way they were raised. 

• What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)r Saying words in spanish right and working on my accent.

B. I found the negative space by just seeing the outer layer of the picture. The negative space is the the picture that seems to be the picture but it's really just the outline of the actually object.

C. I think it helps an artist because if an help you see your drawing in a different point of view or it can help you see a picture in an abstract type of view as well.

D. Yes because again as I said, It can help you see your picture in a different point of view.

1) Negative Space is the sketch and or drawing that shouldn't be drawn by someone. This can be known as the background of an image.

2) To find where the negative space is all I did was realized what the outer surface of the object is in which basically to me is know as the outer layer. This what I did for the first project. For the second project it's very difficult to explain therefore it's better for people to visualize it instead. 

3) Seeing this type of art made me see that art can really be exact and perhaps precise. This made me change my opinion about art because this shows that art is something that needs to be drawn almost close to being perfect. 

4) Yes, this does help the artist because it helps me see the difference between an image and just random space that actually makes up the particles of any image. 

A. Negative space is the space between an object, and not the actual object. When dealing with negative space, you always draw the actual space around the object but not the object itself.

B. The way I found negative space in my stool drawing, was I just looked around the stool, and drew all of the empty space surrounding it. The way I saw negative space in my cut out was, I looked at how the cut out had the 2 different colors, and saw how the cut out showed the space that was actually between the cut out.

C. The reason it helps an artist to see in negative space, is it allows them to see every single detail not only in the thing they want to draw, but also around it, causing you to be able to see every single detail.

D.I believe seeing in negative space does enhance a drawing. With seeing in negative space, you see things in a different perspective and are able to see every single detail of a drawing.

What are 5 questions related to your conversation goal that you can think of ahead of time to ask your partner?

Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?

• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
  -I spoke with a guy who name is Luis Angel. The reason why I chose to speak with him is because he's from Mexico. All my other conversations were from people who lives in Spain.
  
  
• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
  I learned that he's a very happy person. He's the type of person that always has a smile, no matter what. He doesn't like to be sad. Even at the toughest times, he wants to smile.
  
  
• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
  Well, my goal was to be natural with my conversation, it worked kind of well, but not really. During the time that I was talking to him, I was super happy and it was interesting to talk to a person who was also happy. What a coincident! I tried to natural with my typing and not having to double think about what to say, but when I did that, my sentence didn't make sense ): it sucked, but he corrected me.
  
  
• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
  I think I did well on pushing myself to say the right things.
  
  
• What specifically do you need to improve on? 
  When I try to say a lot, I get all mixed up. So maybe I should stick with what I know instead of jamming a whole bunch of words together.