Annabella CP #3

 Date: 07/29/2021

Topic discussed: Journaling and Family

Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: Today Sara shared with me some journal entries that she wrote during her time in America. My favorite entry featured a family tree that she drew of my dad's side of the family. For Thanksgiving, I took Sara with me and my family to North Carolina to spend the holiday with my aunts, uncles, and cousins. She talked about how much she loved my family and remembered all their names. She said that she remembered how loud we were and how at the table there would be 20 different conversations happening at once which she loved. She compared it to her small family and told me how usually when the holidays came around, she would have two separate dinners with her mom and sisters, then with her dad and step mom. Because she had such a small family, there wasn't as much commotion as mine and dinners so big. She said that it was crazy how big we made every meal especially breakfast. She was so used to having the same thing (yogurt and cucumbers on crackers) that she wasn't used to eating big during every single meal. 

The journaling really helped her practice her English and she told me that it was a good exercise for her brain to be able to think and translate those thoughts on paper in English. I never thought about journaling in Spanish but I think it is a great idea and I want to start practicing and training my mind to think in Spanish when I am speaking, listening, or reading it.