My Telenovela Journey

So I feel that I have come a long way since the first day I walked into this class. I had heard of telenovelas but had never watched one before. I did not know what I was missing!

After watching my telenovela, Heridas de Amor, and listening to everyone's presentations, I wish I had enough time in my life right now to just watch telenovela after telenovela.

I was so interested in Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso, especially since I saw something about it when I was looking at what telenovela to watch and researched information on different web sites. At first I thought it must be ridiculous because its about boobs, drugs, and prostitution and blew it off right away. After seeing Harper's presentation on it, which was the first of three, I had to start watching it. I was in the middle of it when the second person presented on it, and by the time the third presentation about it rolled around, I had finished it.

It was so addicting! And when I started the first episode and realized there were no subtitles, I was worried about how I was going to understand it. Luckily, it turned out that I did just fine, which made me feel better about my understanding of Spanish in general. Although I could not understand when they spoke so fast and went off on little tirades, I think I did pretty well and I was impressed with myself.

The ending was so abrupt, though with Catalina's dramatic death. It didn't show what happened to her family or to Jessica or anything, which kind of made me annoyed. And the way they killed off Biron was not what I expected either; they just showed Jessica's mom telling Dona Hilda about it and her crying.

I am interested in watching so many other telenovelas, too. I really want to watch Ciudad Bendita and other ones we learned about in class that Dr. A has studied and that Marisa Roman has been in. I have a lot to see!