ATALA,+JAVIER

Week 1: ﻿The Art of a Beautiful Game is a book written by Chris Ballard in 2009 written for Sports Illustrated. This week i read from page 1-78 in my Ibooks application. This book talks about the beauty of basketball and has different chapters about different players like Kobe, Steve Kerr, Lebron, etc and their virtues. There virtues illustrates what makes basketball beautiful. The pages i read is the first chapterof this book and talks about "Kobe Bryant: Why Kobe wants to beat you at everything". The chapter tells us how Kobe since he was a little kid he hates loosing and if he does he challenges you until he cansay he beat you. Kobe bryant is a guy that will never let up for a second and will always play hard defense on you and will always punish you on offense. Then it tells us about his life and how he got in love with the game of basketball living with his dad in italy and watching the games at midnight and the transition he had from going to college to play profesional basketball with the Lakers. And it finally tells us how his quest to win a championship by himself made him work harder until he compleated it by beating the Orlando Magic in 5 games of the NBA finals in 2009.

=Week 2:= With my dad i went to see Honduras to the World Cup in South Africa. It was a incredible exerience and i enjoyed it a lot. There at SA i could only talk with the people in english because it was the only language they know. I spoke english all day long back there and i got a lot of practice.

One of my experiences and interactinon with the english language back there was when i went to an opening night concert. All the music was in english with artists like: black eyed peas, shakira, alicia keys, john legend, and k'nann. All have english songs which i was singing while i was hearing them. There were over 15 songs in the whole concert.

Over there i talked with many of my dad friends, and they all spoke english because they were from diferent part of the world. It was a very entertaining experience. I had a blast.



=Week 3:= This week i got to know the city well, had a lot of tours, went to malls, etc. I was a tourist this week. I spoke english to comunicate myself with people because there were few people who spoke spanish.

One of my tours which i listened and talked english all day long is when we went to Bloemfontein to Kali safari. The guide was from SA and he spoke to us in english all day long. I asked some questions in english about their environment, habitat, interaction, etc.We were at the safari from 10 a.m. till 9 p.m. We saw different animals like zebras, giraffes, monkeys, hippos, tigers, lions, and many more.

This was a very interesting week because i spoke english with a lot for facility and spoke english every single time. And of course i enjoyed it a lot.

I also went in a tour throught the city. It went throught the whole city of Johannesburg. I found out everything about avert area in the city including its most famous part called Sandton. Sandton included famous areas like Mandela Square and Michelangelo Square.

It was another exciting place to be.



=WEEK 4:=

Last week it was to get to know the city and get accustomed to it. This week was the more exciting part because we got to go to the soccer games. We went to lots of game including the Honduras game. When we went to the stadium we spoke a lot of english. For example when we got to the entrance we spoke english to the guards to give them our tickets, we spoke english when we wanted to buy some foods, drinks and souveniers. We also spoke english with the people in there, we interacted and made new friends. We also hear english when the anouncer made some announcements through the game. And i also read the announcements and the propaganda made during the game. We went to see a lot of games. I spoke, heard, and read a lot of english when i went to the games. I used it to my advantage and didn't stop speaking english during the games. It was a very fun and entertaining experience.

=Week 5: In this week i arrived at a summer camp at Culver, Indianapolis called Culver Military Academy located at 1300 Academy Road. This is my second summer at this all english speaking camp. At this camp we speak English all day long and very littlewhen i get a chance i can speak spanish. What i am going to show is what we do in a normal day at Culver and illustrate all the amount of english we speak. We wake up at 6:30 and form up to go eat breakfast and they call roll in english and give orders in english to go into the mess. If we speak spanish they scream at us because mot of the people there are from english speaking countries. Then we go to our classes. Myclasses were first period sailing: all of our instructors only speak english and we learn how to rig, de-rig, sail, etc in english. We speak with our instructors in english. Everything is done in english. Second period is Basketball: Coach Shumerth only knows english and obviously while playing basketball i spoke english so i could understand myself with my team mates. Third period was volleyball: Coach Wolff was from Culver and only knew english so i spoke with him in english all day long. Most of my class were from english speaking countries. After that we had lunch and we did the same thing as breakfast to form and enter the mess, and speak english all the time. In the mess we could only speak english because it was a rule. After that i went fourth period English Pre-SAT: This class was done by Mr. Bayless. We went through 10 chapters of the english SAT book including sentence fluency,essays, sentence errors, etc. We also had to write an essay about our favorite sport and why, as well we had 2 vocabulary test which i got a score of 76 and 90. After that we went to fifth period Circutweight: we went to work out with our instructor Mr. Delks. After that we had company sports like soccer, basketball, softball, flag football, and volleyball. Spaniish was not allowed while playing or consequences would have occurred. After that we had dinner and did the same like in breakfast and lunch. Then we had retreat or parades, and we comunicated in english and all comands like "attention, parade rest, at ease, right turn march, etc" were in english. Then we had recreational time to speak with our different friends and have a good time with them. I had friends from all over the world like, USA, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Latin America,etc. Then at 10 we had to go and sleep. And the same routine happened for all the summer camp. = **WEEK 6: At Culver there is this week call Homecoming Week. This is where the Culver Alumni comes back to visit and a parade is done in their honor. My cousin. Camilo is a Culver Alumni so he came for this week. On Sunday of this week he took us on permits with my cousin Juan Carlos and Victoria. We went to eat and then to the movies to watch "Grown Ups". This movie was about these 4 best friends and their coach died, so they decide going to the beach house they went when they were little. So the movie was basically about the 4 families becoming more united as the weekend went by. They had a good time with their children. It was a comedy movie which i laughed a lot. At the end they play a basketball game against their rivals when they were little. They end up loosing, but it showed me that its not always about winning. It was a very entertaining movie. **

**Week 7: While we were at culver as I just mentioned we had permits on the weekends. This weekend my counselor Mr. Jordan Knox took Juan Carlos(cousin) and me to the movies on show land cinemas in Plymouth near culver. We went to se Despicable Me. ** The movie was about the main character Gru being a super villain competing against another super villain called Victor. They competed on who could get the shrink ray to go get the moon and become the best villain of all time. The only thing that was in the way of Gru is that in his plans to get the shrink ray he adopted 3 little girls. Those girls where orphans and they sell Victors favorite cookies. Gru finally gets the shrink ray. During the movie Gru falls in love with the girls in a way he cannot be detached from them. The movie ends Gru getting the moon and beating Victor. Gru from there on didn't matter on being a villain, but to love and adore those 3 girls. There is on other example of myself interacting with the English language during the summer. **Week 8: The last week of my summer camp another of my counselor Mr. Marsh Gray took me out on permits with a lot of my friends. We went to the movies again for the last time. We went to see Toy Story 3. ** The movie was about Andy going to college and putting his toys in the attic, but Woody with him to college. Mistakingly all of them end up in Sunny side day care. There they meet Latsow the meanest toy ever who treated everyone as if they were in prison. There plan was to get out, but they get out with Latsow sneaking in. They go throughout dumpsters and there Latsow gets tangled up with a car and the car takes him. The toys return to to Andy, but non of them return to the attic or college. Instead Andy donates them to a little girl. There we see the last time Andy plays with his toys before going to college. That was the last example of speaking or interacting with the English language this summer.