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 * Es el dos de marzo de dos mil diez**

Hola Miren, i hope that you had a good birthday! that sounds like lots of fun to me! Did you turn 16? Well, i hope that you enjoyed your day and had a lot of fun! now here are my paragraphs in Spanish: El sería realmente divertido si podríamos hacer un un cambio entre nosotros. Entonces podemos por último geto para tener una conversación verdadera. hablando en el ordenador consigue muy rutinario. Suena como usted un muy ocupado. Yo no quiero pruebas. ¡Suena como usted tiene muchos! El tiempo ha sido realmente agradable aquí. Comienza a sentirse como primavera. ¡Adoro primavera! ¡Adoro correr fuera! Este fin de semana, yo pienso que mis amigos y yo tendrán una noche de película. Soy emocionado muy. Nosotros no hemos hecho algo como que en mucho tiempo. Espero que sea divertido. Okay, i think that's enough spanish. well i hope the hear from you soon Once again i hope you had a good birthday,

Un abrazo, Kelli


 * Es el veinte y cinco de febrero de dos mil diez**

Hola Miren: Lamento que no escribió la semana pasada. Pasado martes, teníamos un funeral para mi tío. Su muerte fue muy triste para mi familia. estaba muy molesta acerca de esto. es difícil de superar. Estoy haciendo mejor ahora porque sé que está en un lugar mejor. él estaba muy enfermo. Este fin de semana, voy a ir a un juego de baloncesto. Es el último juego en casa. Probablemente llegaremos muy emocionados para ello. Después del partido, tengo mis amigos sobre. Nos va a estar atento a películas. Well i think that is enough spanish for now. It sounds like you have had a very bad winter! We haven't had that bad of one. We haven't had as much snow as we normally do. It has been pretty cold, but not in the negatives or anything. Last year school was closed because it got so cold! Not this year though. I would have to say that i do not like the snow. I am not a fan of the cold. I would much rather have sunshine and warmth. I only like snow if school is closed! Today, we had a snow day. I'm not really sure why. I went driving around and the roads were as good as normal! It seems weird to waste a snow day, but i will take it! Well i hope you have a good day. Hope to hear from you soon! Adios Kelli

¡Hola Miren! ¿Cómo es usted? Soy bueno. ¿Qué deporte juega usted? Mi dporte favorito es voleibol. La temporada del voleibol está sobre. Estoy triste y contento. Estoy ocupada con la escula. La escuela es difícil para mí este año. ¿Quiere usted ir a la escuela? ¿Qué es usted clase favorite? Quiero ver mis amigos en la escuela. Corro tarde la escuela.Corro con mi amigo. Se llama es Kassi. Estoy con amigos en el fin de semana. Quieremos mirar películas. Ellos son películas de terror. ¿Qué películas quiere usted? ¿Qué hace usted divertir? Quiero estar con amigos, utilizar mi página de myspace, utilizar mi teléfono celular, y ejercito. ¿Tiene usted animales? Tengo uno gato. Se llama William. Quiero oír de usted pronto. ¡Tenga una semana buena! ¡Adios!

11-17-09 Hello Miren. I hope that everything is going well for you. I will first start off by answering your questions. When I get older I am not sure what I want to do. Right now, I am thinking about becoming a teacher for young children. I love to work with children and I would love to help them learn and do great things in life. I play volleyball on a team for my school. Some of my friends are also on the team. The city that I live in is called Fremont. It’s a very small city with not much to do. My friends and I either go to the movies or go to one of our houses. Those are basically our only options. There are not many good places to shop here. The nearest mall is about thirty miles. It can get very cold here in the winter. We usually have about five days a year that school is closed because of the snow. The summers are pretty mild. It’s not very hot except in July and August. The school that I attend is Fremont Saint Joseph Central Catholic. It’s a small Catholic school for grades 9-12. We start class at 7:45 and finish at 2:45. We do what is called block scheduling. This is where you have four classes a day every-other-day. So on Monday and Wednesday I have four classes and on Tuesday and Thursday I have a different four. On Friday, we have all right of our classes. We have a specific uniform that we wear everyday. We wear gray pants, a white blouse, and a blue blazer. The boys also have to wear a tie.

We have a holiday coming up in about a week and a half called Thanksgiving. On this day there is no school. It is a time to give thanks for everything we have, friends, family, food, shelter, and anything else we are thankful for. This holiday originated with the Pilgrims and the Indians. They had a three day feast in thanksgiving for a great harvest. When they first had this, their meal consisted of venison, fowl, and other foods prepared by the pilgrims. Most families now have turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. Those are the three dishes associated with Thanksgiving. For Thanksgiving, we usually have our family over. The boys like to play football and watch football. The girls usually just talk and help make the food. I love Thanksgiving because I get to have my whole family over all at the same time. Since I have a very small family, it’s not as crazy as it sounds.

Before I go I have a few questions for you: -Do you have any special holidays coming up? -Do you dance just for fun? -What do you mean when you say you are “una chica pija” If you are having trouble understanding this I can help you.

Have a good week, Kelli

11-24-09 Hello Miren, I am very sorry to hear about your exams. I always feel very stressed when it’s time for mine.

First I will start off by answering your questions.

Other than playing volleyball I do not play any other sports. Volleyball in played during the fall. In the winter and spring I spend my free time running to keep in shape for the volleyball season. In the summer, volleyball practices start up to start getting us ready for the season.

In my school, we don’t really have any trips that we go on. The only time we go on a trip is in your senior year, which is the last year at the school. I will be able to go on that next year. They usually go on a cruise to the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

I usually get along with my brother pretty well. We sometimes can get mad at each other, but it’s just something that brothers and sisters do. We are usually back to normal in a few minutes and can just laugh at what just happened.

Thank you for the map. It really helps me to be able to visualize everything that you are talking about.

I think when you go to the beach with your friends for a week sounds like so much fun! I don’t really do anything like that, but I think that would be so a lot of fun. In Ohio, the state where I live, there really aren’t many beaches around. We have a like about 30 miles from our city, but we aren’t near the ocean.

During summer, I usually just stay around my town, unless I go on vacation with my family. We have a really big amusement park that is about 40 minutes from our town. It has the fastest and tallest rollercoaster in the world. My friends and I like to drive up there and spend the day just having fun. They also have something called halloweekends during October. This is where they set up haunted houses for Halloween. We usually go one or two weekends in October.

To end this I will ask you a few questions:

When you go to Barcelona does everyone in your class go? Do you play any sports besides dancing? What do you do when you go to the beach for a week?

12-2-09

Hello Miren!

I hear that you have a week break coming up! That’s very exciting; I love to have time off! We just got off of our Thanksgiving break. It was very short. We only got two days off plus the weekend. I went very fast. I’m looking forward to our next time off, which is in about three weeks.

Lately, my family and I have just been getting ready for Christmas. I started shopping for gifts for everyone this weekend. We also started decorating the house. Our tree is almost finished! I’m very excited for Christmas this year. It’s coming up so fast! I hope that I can get all of my shopping done before it gets here!

Now I am going to write one paragraph in Spanish about Thanksgiving. I am sorry if some of my Spanish is a little off.

En el día de gracias. teníamos la familia en nuestra casa para una comida grande. Comemos el pavo, las patatas trituradas, maíz, y el pie de calabaza. Los muchachos juegaron al futbol Americano y las muchachas cocinen la comida. Después comemos la comida jugamos con las cartas. A veces nosotros dormimos.

Before I go I will end with some questions:

What is the reason for having a break? Do you have anything planned to do over break? How do you get ready for Christmas?

15-12-09

Hola Kelli:

Ya lo siento por contestarte tarde, es que no e tenido tiempo hasta hoy en meterme en Internet.

Voy a empezar contestando a tus preguntas:

El viaje que hacemos a Barcelona no es obligatorio ir, te puedes que dar. Pero si no vas al viaje tienes que ir a clase a estudiar. También te pueden castigar sin ir a ese viaje por haber sido expulsado más de una vez de clase, si es así pierdes el derecho de ir a el viaje.

Este año no hago un deporte en especial, a veces salgo a correr con mis amigas para despejarnos del colegio o sin más, para estar en forma. También suelo ir a nadar a la piscina cubierta para no perder el hilo y en verano acordarme de como se nada.

En especial hago “soffing” que significa estar todo el día tirado en el sofá viendo la tele. Es el deporte que mas me gusta

Cuando voy una semana a la playa con mi familia solemos ir a un hotel los cuatro, cogemos dos habitaciones, una para mi hermano y para mi y otra para mis padres. En el hotel cogemos la comida y el desayuna, y para cenar nos vamos a cualquier restaurante que halla cerca del sitio para conocer un poco más el lugar.

Pero a veces solemos alquilar un apartamento, y cuando lo hacemos como comemos desayunamos y cenamos ahí, nos pegamos todo el día o en la piscina o en la playa tomando el sol, y a las noches salimos con nuestros amigos, mi hermano con los suyos y yo con los míos.

A continuación acabaré con unas preguntas: - ¿Tienes coche? - ¿A donde te sueles ir con tu familia de vacaciones? - ¿Es obligatorio ir al viaje que haces a las Bahamas y al Caribe?

Es el quince de diciembre de dos mil nueve

Hola Miren,

It's okay that you have not written in a while. I know that you were on a break for a while.

First i will answer your questions:

I got my license about seven months ago and when i got that, i got a car. I love it! It's not the best car out there, but it works and it gets me where i want to go. It's something that I use everyday, more than once.

When i go on vaction with my family, i usually go to different places every year. Sometimes we don't travel very far and other times we will go very far away. We went on a cruise once, which was out of the country and that is the farthest that i have ever traveled. We went to many many islands just outside of the United States. Sometimes we just stay inside my state of Ohio. We will just travel to one of the bigger cities to visit family, or just to be around the feeling of a big city.

When we go on our class trip to the Bahamas and Carribean, it is not mandatory. We can choose to go, or you can stay home and you just have those few days off of school. Sometimes, students will plan trips of their own if they do not want to go on the trip. If you do not go, nothing is going to happen, other than you miss out on the last chance to just have fun with your class before you have to leave everyone to go off to college.

Before I go, here are a few questions that i have for you: Do you have your drivers license and/or a car? Have you ever vistied anywhere outisde of your country? What is winter like in your country?

Hasta luega, Kelli

Hola Miren,

Escribiré primero un pequeño en español. ¿Tuvo una Navidad buena? ¿Qué recibió? Recibí muchas ropa, el dinero, y tarjetas de regalo. Mi favorito fue un ordenador portátil. Dormí mucho durante interrupción de Navidad. Estoy triste volver al colegio. Quiero que sea el verano. Quiero el tiempo caliente. El verano es mi favorito.

I think that is as much spanish as my brain can take for now! I forget everything since we just had break.

I am sorry that i have not wrote to you in a while. We were recently on break, which lasted for about two weeks. It's really hard to get back ino the routine of school I stayed up to late and slept in to late over break, and now it's hard for me to be able to get to sleep and the wake up early.

Over break, we celebrated the new year! Basically what happens is everyone gets together with their closest friends and they celebrate the end of the current year and the beginning of a new year. I went to one of my friends house with a group of people and we all celebrated the end of the year, and our chance to make many more memories together in the new year. For this celebration, everyone stays up until midnight on December 31. Everyone gathers around the TV to watch a ball drop as the clock strikes midnight. This takes place in the streets of New york City.

We will soon be having exams and i am really starting to fear the pressure. Next week, i have 5 exams and 2 projects to do. On Monday, I am going to take my first half of the Spanish exam. I am really nervouse because that is my worst class! I am not very good at being able to put everything together, am i just have a really hard time understanding it. Also due Monday, i have a really big physiology project due. Physiology is a science about the body. For the project we have to pick a public health concern and write a paper on it. The paper had to be at least six pages so I am really not looking forward to doing that. THe other project that i have, is called a PSA, or public service announcment. Each student needs to pick a topic that they think needs to be changed, for example racism, making abortiion illegal, or under age drinking, etc. We need to make a presentation that somehow gets our point across. The presentation needs to be at least one minutes. On Thursday and Friday i have exams in Spanish, math, history, english, and chemistry. I am going to be really busy with all this the next few weeks.

Before i go, here are a few questions:

What all di you get for Christmas? Do you have any exams? What is the weather like there right now?

¡Adiós!

Kelli


 * Es el doce de enero de dos mil diez**

I will not be writing to you this week due to exams

¡Adiós! Kelli


 * Es el veinte y uno de enero de dos mil diez**

Hola Miren!

i think that there has been a little bit of confusion on how we are reaching each other lately. So hopefully i can fix this. Sorry, my mistake. I hope to hear from you soon!

All the snow has pretty much melted here so it's kind of gross looking outside. That is one thing that i do not like about winter. Once the snow melts or there is only a little bit left it looks really dirty. I like how it looks just after a snowfall. Plus, since it all melted now we can't play in it anymore! I love to go sledding and have snow ball fights with my friends. Do you have any snow on the ground where you live? Do you do anything fun in the snow?

I am so glad that our exams are over. I really didn't do very good, and i did the worst on Spanish, as i figured i would. I did worse than i thought i would! I was really disappointed in myself once i saw the grades!! I am going to have to work very hard this semester to make sure i make up for how poorly i did on these exams. On the bright side, school is halfway over for the year! I'm ready for summer! I'm tired of school for this year, already! How much school do you have left for this year? How did you do on your exams?

Now i am going to try my best and write you paragraph in Spanish:

He sido cansado muy. Tengo muchos deberes para hacer. Estoy listo por el verano. Quiero divertirse. Yo no quiero estudiar mucho. llego a donde yo no quiero trabajar mucho. Estoy sobre que escuela contento es media. Estoy contento que exámenes están sobre también. Tuve un gran año nuevo y Navidad. ¿Que tal usted? Espero que usted pueda leer todo esto. Soy muy malo en español, pero trabajaré duramente este semestre y lo comprenderé el mejor puedo.

I think that's enough spanish. If there is a sentence that you do not understand, i will tell you what i meant to say in English so it will make a little bit more sense. Well i hope the hear from you soon

Tenga un día bueno Kelli


 * Es el veinte y seis de enero de dos mil diez**

Hola Miren, Well I haven't heard much from you lately so i'm not really sure if there is a miscommunication or what the deal is. I hope to hear back from you soon though. It's getting challenging to answer back when i don't have anything to write back to. Well, school has been pretty good lately, but i have a lot of work to be doing lately. I'm getting really stressed with all this homework that we have. Hopefully it gets bettter as the quarter goes one, but i doubt it. How has school been for you lately? Are you getting a lot of work to do as well?

I had a boring weekend this weekend. I had fun on Friday, but i ended up being sick the rest of the weekend so I really didn't do anything besides sleep. I am feeling better now though, so hopefully i can make it through this week and have a better weeekend than last weekend. What did you do this weekend?

Adios Kelli


 * Es el dos de febrero de dos mil diez**

Hola Miren, Don't worry about not writing me in a while. I know that sometimes computers can be a little difficult. It seems like they are broken more than they work. I am glad that you have a good Christmas and New Years. Going out with friends on New Years is so much fun. It's what makes the New Year so exciting! I also see that your birthday is coming up and it's during a very exciting time it sounds like! That's very exciting. I hope that you have a good one. I also see that you have exmas soon. Good luck! I hope that you do well. I know that i felt so much better once mine were over.

Next, i will write in Spanish: Debemos decirle cómo aprendemos el mejor. Aprendo el mejor oyendo y escribelo hacia abajo. Debo tener cosas repetidos. El más oigo el más yo lo puedo poner en a la memoria. ¿Cómo aprende usted mejor? ¿Qué marcas que aprenden la diversión para usted? Pienso que jugando juegos pueden ser divertido para quiere competición. Yo no quiero el trabajo realmente del grupo porque tengo problemas permaneciendo en la tarea. ¿Qué no quiere usted hacer?

I hope that this is good enough for you to read. if you have trouble readng it i will just type it to you in English.

Well I am going to be going to bed here in about ten minutes. I hope to hear from you soon

Un Saludo Kelli


 * Es el neueve de febrero de dos mil diez**

Hola Miren,

Recently, there has been a lot controversy in my school. They are trying to change the name of our scchool from Fremont Sain Joseph central Catholic to Bishop Hoffman High School. No one wants this to happen. Everyone is really happy with our current school name and there's a lot of history behind the name. It's a tradition, and changing it would make a lot of people sad. On Monday, we had a big assembly where the principal read the letter from the Bishop stating that he wanted to change our name. We all chanted SJCC, sang our fight song, and sang our alma mater. This was all recorded and made into a video and sent to the Bishop. Also, a letter was written by the Senior class president and a petition was made. I would say that 95% of the people in the school signed the petition.

I was very upset when i heard this news, but i felt some people were acting a little over dramatic about the whole thing. Even the students were acting out in a very dramatic way. I am so glad that all this is being done because i just want it to be over. I find it hard to concentrate in school. It's all everyone talks about.

here is a little in spanish

¿Cómo hace usted? Hago bueno. Esperamos mucha nieve el martes y el miércoles. espero que nosotros no tenemos la escuela. la tormenta será malas. nosotros no hemos tenido cualquier días de la nieve mas este año. estoy listo para uno. ¿Consigue usted días de nieve? ¿Le tiene nieva días este año?

i think that's enough for now. Hope to hear from you soon!

Adios Kelli