I decided to interview our Costa Rican tour guide Victor. Some of the undergraduate students and I got an opportunity to talk to Victor about some of his travels and his life. The following interview questions focus on Victor’s life, his family, and his beliefs. Q: Where was the person born and what is their citizen status? A: Victor is a legal citizen, and he was born in the city of Puntarenas, which is located on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. He has lived in Costa Rica for most of his life. Q: What kind of health facilities has the person had experience with? A: When Victor was young he would have asthma attacks. He would go to the clinic in Puntarenas before he went to school to treat his asthma. Victor is a believer in Western medicine. …show more content…
He took three years of French, but he didn’t understand it so well so he took it again when he was twenty-three years old. He learned how to speak English in secondary school and when he went to the university. It took Victor over five years to learn how to speak English. Q: What kind of education facilities has the person had experience with? A: Victor said that he had spent less than a year living abroad in France learning French. He lived with an elderly woman in Lyon France, and he had an emergent curriculum. Q: What are the customs and beliefs concerning major life events? (births, deaths, weddings, graduation, etc.) A: When a couple gets married they get three or four paid days off of work. A person will also get three days off of work if a family members dies. If someone has a baby they will get four months paid time off of work. Q: What are the customs and beliefs concerning holidays? A: Halloween in Costa Rica is called legends day. On this day, teachers will tell their students haunted legends that are age appropriate. One famous legend that Victor told us was called La Llorona or the weeping woman. The weeping woman is a spirit of a cursed mother who spends her time crying by a river at night weeping for her murdered child. Q: How would you characterize the nonverbal communication
Victor is a boy who tries to impress and get a girl to like him.
The conflict that arises in “Seventh Grade” is in Victor’s mind. He tries to impress his crush, Tressa by speaking French. When he tries to speak French, his teacher knows he cannot, but does not say anything. Since he tried to speak French, he finds himself in a problem, because Tressa ask him to tutor her. In this internal conflict, there is a positive outcome. The positive part in this situation
“Seventh Grade” was an internal conflict because Victor was always having problems that would take place inside his mind. In the story, he had tried to bump into Teresa when she left the room so he could speak to her. He would always be trying to impress Teresa. Mr. Baldor had abetted Victor when he knew that Victor did not know French nevertheless
It gives the story tension which leads the readers wanting to learn more. In the rising action of the story, Victor pretends to speak French. However, his “French” in class leaves him being embarrassed and hoping that no one would notice. Mr.Bueller noticed but didn’t say anything. This is the part of the story where the conflict is introduced to the readers. Here it is portrayed as an internal conflict as Victor embarrasses
He had planned to talk about his book Macho, but when he faced the crowd of teachers, his experience at school came back into his mind. He said he had faced a lot of abuse and his efforts to overcome bad teaching and become a writer. He admired good teachers with all his heart but criticized bad teachers. That presentation was not what the audience expected. Some reacted cruelly and left, but most of audience stayed and listened to him. After that, Victor was invited to give more speeches to let the audience know what worked in their education system.
He was constantly reminded that he could not speak French which also shows in the title" me talk pretty one day." It shows the insecurities in Sedaris and the other student's faith in learning the language. They all hope that one day they will be able to speak and understand French but has lost the hope because of their teacher.
So as you can see from my essay Victor Cruz is a very good football player. He has great sportsmanship. And can do incredible things. One incredible thing he can do is run 40 yards in 4.46. And and get 10 catches for 142 yards. Also he started his salsa dance because of his grandmother who taught him how to salsa. Also his grand mother loved touchdown dances. And that is my essay on Victor
The chapter starts off with victor’s dad Juan giving him the talk on of how everyone loves Mexicans, on how he should start studying girls so when time comes he will choose the right one That he should be a brave man and he gave the talk on what he should and should not do in his first day of school such as stop picking his nose. The next day five-year-old victor was so nervous, while in school he didn’t want his mother to leave him and started crying in front of the class. After the teacher and victor’s mom forced victor to stay, a Mexican kid next to him started to comfort him. The teacher then screamed at them for speaking Spanish, she made it clear that English was the primary language in school. Victor was not allowed to go to the restroom,
Whenever people read stories they don’t notice that the characters change throughout the story, here are a couple ways that this character changed throughout the article “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto.In the beginning, it shows that Victor is not very shy at school. In the article it says “He stretched out lazily to disguise his snooping.”( Soto 1.)This shows that he is not super nervous because he is not afraid to snoop or spy on a girl. Next, Victor got very nervous and was self conscious about everything.In the text it says “Great rose bushes of red bloomed on Victor’s cheeks.”( Soto 1.)This shows he was nervous because he was his cheeks turned red when he did not understand the question because the teacher said it in French. Finally, at the
The interviewee for my project, Andres Alejo, is currently a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. He was so excited to express his opinions for this interview, as he grew up traveling back and forth between two cultures. Due to his father’s job, he traveled between the United States and the Dominican Republic until he was in fifth grade, when his family returned to the Dominican Republic to stay. During his time in the United States, his time was divided between Mt. Vernon, New York and Miami. Andres eventually returned to the United States to study Piano Performance at Boston Conservatory. His experience with learning English was not as difficult for him, since he started learning during his formative years. He mentioned that his
Victor struggles to identify himself as a Native American. We see him describe what an Indian is supposed to be like and it is loosely connected with his ancestry. Unlike the protagonist of the poem he is unable to connect with the land and his ancestors. The protagonist mentions that the memory of her people has
In “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” David Sedaris talks about his unique quest of learning the French language, the people that he met, and a teacher who seemingly despised him and the the other students. This essay was pretty different from the other accounts we have previously read in class, in many different ways. One of the main differences between them was that in say, “Learning to Read,” by Malcom X, is that in this particular story, Sedaris is already very literate in the English language, his first language. He is learning French to learn French, he doesn’t need to, and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to learn a second language. But it is a little bit different then those who were actually learning to read and write because it was virtually
Victor Montejo lived in a society that was a very poor area. The village was located in Guatemala. Though he lived outside of this village it is where he spent most of his time since he was the schoolmaster. The people in village were very poor and believed in community as a way of life. The villagers were out to help everyone not just
Although the narrator’s parents are keeping him from learning or speaking their native languages, which is what most of his family members speak, in order to stabilize his English proficiency, there are many negative effects of doing so. The narrator constantly feels
Victor is one of the main characters in “Ice Man”. Victor is an Indian, or you may call it a Native