I found this song recently on You Tube and it makes me cry when I think of my ex in Bolivia. Hope you can relate to it….great message
Not that anyone is actually still reading these blogs from Dr. Conway’s MODL but I decided to keep up on mine as much as possible. Wow, since the end of school in May so much has happened and I can’t believe we just finished July 4! I finally finished the school year with DISD in May and am so thankful not to have to drive to Dallas every morning and return in the evenings in that horrible traffic. I officially resigned to take a graduate assistantship in the Spanish department at UTA. I am so less stressed now.
For Memorial Day weekend in Maryland, I visited my Salvadoran friend Luis who you see in my blog below. I had a blast with him and we talked about so many things involving relationships and life. At the end, though, I got deathly sick with a fever…..he wouldnt leave me the last night before I returned back to Texas which was super sweet. I almost missed my flight because he had to drop off his aunt, etc. etc. I ended up having to dump my Bath and Body Works lotion that I had just bought, toothpaste, my new bottle of Avon shampoo, because I was too late to check my luggage but I made the flight. The girl at the gate was like, “You must be John Stutler”
I made it home in a feverish state…….it was horrible but finally my fever broke that night in bed and that was even more gross as you know with a wet bed, etc.
Then came my haphazard decision to take LING 5300, An Intro to Linguistics class for Summer I. I didnt even realize it was an elective for MODL because I had decided (for the billionth time like a freshman) to change my MA dual major to MODL and TESOL. I will talk more about this later. I LOVED that class. Dr. Burquest was so cool (even though I was sort of pissed about the 1 hr. exam time limit in which I was not able to finishe the first exam and got an 89) I punched it on the second one on phonology with a 100..hell yeah. And the final exam, I know I did well because I studied all night. I learned so much in that class about linguistics and it helped me to decide that I definitely wanted to go into TESOL along with my MODL degree. It was a great fit. I will go into this more in another blog!!!
In the middle of this class, I had THE SURGERY…….I just got braces in January and my ortho said I need to have all 4 wisdom teeth removed. AND I had one baby tooth removed (at 36 yrs old!) and three other teeth “exposed” that had not come in……the oral surgeon was very good and to make a long story short, I did not swell, I had no pain after the first day, and I am healing perfectly. They attached a gold chain to one tooth and my brackets but I had tears in my eyes when the ortho actually PULLED the string chain to to my braces a week after the surgery. What was cool about all this though is my dad and stepmom came down to take care of me. They arrived and stayed in my UTA apartment all week with me. My dad loved UTA and my apartment. My surgery was on Wednesday so on Tuesday, we took a tour of the Dallas Cowboys stadium in Irving.
After that, I started watching a ton of movies from the interlibrary loan that I found on World Cat and that Dr. Alicia Rueda-Acedo had told me about. Many of them are Pedro Almodovar but a few are not. I am still watching them…I have like 30-40 all summer to watch. Some of them like La Ley de Deseo made me cry (which is not difficult in a movie) to see what love can do. Here are my favorites along with their internet descriptions. For me the 3 most powerful/passionate so far:
1. La ley del deseo 
Película protagonizada por Eusebio Poncela, que interpreta a Pablo, un director de cine y de teatro (¿alter ego del propio Almodóvar?). Junto a él está su hermana Tina (Carmen Maura), una mujer algo inestable y con un pasado turbulento, pero que le adora. Pablo ama al guapo Juan (Miguel Molina), pero éste parece no saber darle todo lo que necesita, así que decide marcharse a trabajar a un chiringuito en la playa. Sin embargo, aunque estén separados, siguen en contacto por carta. Por último, cierra el triángulo Antonio (Antonio Banderas), un joven de familia acomodada, que está obsesionado con Pablo. Tanto, que está dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa por conseguir su amor.
Excepcional película de nuestro director más universal, Pedro Almodóvar, que presenta en “La Ley del Deseo” una historia de pasión e intriga, en la que está omnipresente el tema gay. Contiene algunas de las escenas de sexo entre hombres más interesantes de los años 80. Es indispensable en toda video/dvdteca de cualquier aficionado al mejor cine.
2. Amor de hombre
Esperanza (Loles León) decide celebrar su 40 cumpleaños rodeada de sus mejores amigos, todos ellos gays. Junto a su mejor amigo, Ramón (Andrea Occhipinti), intentará encontrar al hombre de su vida. Sin embargo, será Ramón quien encuentre al suyo. Esperanza se pondrá celosa y esto hará tambalear la relación entre los dos amigos.
3. Y tu mama tambien 
The film talks about the search for identity by two adolescents. Basically a road movie, the film sees two teenage friends convince a Spanish woman to spend a few days travelling with them. On the road, the woman teaches the teenagers about sex and growing up.
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