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…Português!

I can’t believe we are already a week into October! I’m definitely in the thick of it, with no lack of reading or response writing to show for it! I was able to find an alternative to Portuguese at the University of Washington through the Washington Academy of Languages. My first class meets tonight and I’m so thrilled to begin. It is a 5-week semi-intensive class with only four students when I enrolled last week. I will be receiving four credits for the class transferable back to Evergreen through Seattle Pacific University. It’s all very complicated, but thankfully the kind folks in the Office of Admissions were willing to work with me to find a solution for this very important educational goal I have set for myself. Having a knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese will greatly enhance my ability to contribute in any Latin American community organization, not to mention that reading and writing proficiency is required for some graduate school programs.

This week I have been reading leadership narratives from people like César Chávez, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. for my Social Movements class. I’ve decided to write my response paper on César Chávez, a community organizer who helped to unionize farmworkers in the 1960s by working with migrant farm workers. In Spanish class we have been reading short stories and learning how to respond critically and analytically in order to practice our literary reading and writing skills en español. A draft of our first literary analysis paper is due on Wednesday of next week. Good thing I already have a thesis floating around in my brain; I just have to catch it and make it come out eloquently onto paper.

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