Victoria Miller’s blog

  I had a lot of fun this week learning about Latin America and how to dance. It was interesting to take notice of the different regions' music. I don’t usually listen to Latin music so I never really knew about the different types. My most favorite style of music was the Haitian music. I enjoyed the traditional African music that is tied into their music. I also really enjoyed learning to dance and wish we could have spent more time doing it. It was fun to work with the different styles and I hope I get to pull out my new skills soon. I enjoyed dancing with everyone and was very proud of my progress by the end of the classes. I will enjoy teaching my younger brother and the rest of my family how to do these dances though they probably won’t be completely willing. I hope we get to do something like this again soon.

  Hello Lexie! I really enjoyed reading your post and learning more about Manuela Saenz. I too wish we got to talk more about her in class, and I am also glad that she is being recognized for the accomplishment. For her to become a colonel during this time period is truly amazing and to find out that she did more than sit on the side lines is very impressive.

  This week we read The kingdom of this world and though I struggled to fully understand everything that was happening in the book I did find it really interesting. The thing I found the most intriguing in the book was how closely it tied some of the events that had occurred to voodoo and magic. I also found it fascinating how naturally it combined with the story not like it was some crazy idea but rather that it was perfectly normal. While the King was at the church in chapter V of part three the king thinks, “In some remote house - he suspected - there was probably an image of him stuck full of pins hung head down with a knife plunged in the region of the heart.” These acts of voodoo are things that I have heard of and are ways to cause harm to others. I find it very interesting how the king thinks about this act of violence and threat to his life so naturally like it was the expected thing to do, which it most likely was, but as a person only knows the voodoo of fairy tales, rea...