Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Blog #2

One very famous symbol of American culture is baseball.  It is watched and played all throughout America.
To learn more of the history of baseball and its origins you can view this link: www.rpi.edu/fiscap/history-files/history1.htm



Baseball has a very long history and today is still played by many both professionally and by children and adults leisurely.

All over America in each state there are teams set up that make up what we know as Major League Baseball.  People all over the world enjoy watching their teams and support them religiously.  One of these great teams is the New York Yankees.  The Yankees have one many World Series Championships and is known as one of the best teams in the world.  To view the many teams in the MLB you can view the link below.
www.mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp







Baseball is played and is very much incorporated in American family life.  Below is an excerpt to how baseball is viewed to one family.
http://blog.sojo.net/2010/06/01/we-interrupt-this-family-for-baseball-season/http://






Families enjoy watching baseball and playing it.  Organized team sports such as pee wee baseball and highschool baseball are what people enjoy to view together as a family

Sunday, March 20, 2011

eduard then

The language that I learned as a child and my first language is spanish.  Other than that I learned English mostly when I came to the United States 15 years ago.  I learned it mostly through others that I interacted with in daily life.  I didn't really learn how to write it and the only reading I did was of signs and things I had to read to get around.  I am most comfortable with spanish obviously and I can read and write it very well. 

Reading English is not that much of a problem for me. I can read words and know there spelling very well therefore when I write in English it is not too much of a problem for me.  I would say though that I would like to continue learning and brushing up on my writing and reading to make it better.  One can never be too perfect at something.  I think I could always need improvement even though I can communicate very well so far in English.