El Proyecto Periodismo
For
this project we each were given a country to study, and had to chose
a current event topic to write a newspaper article on. We researched
this topic and pieced together an interesting story to add into our
groups final newspaper. I chose to write about the Peruvian soccer
team because I was given Peru to research. Recently their coach
decided to retire because Peru's soccer team has been doing very bad
in matches against other countries. People seem to blame the coach
for this even though Peru has been doing bad for many years. Once we
finished writing our article we got together with our groups and put
everything we had written into our final newspaper. We were each
given jobs to add to the newspaper, such as writing a recipe or
weather story.
I liked researching the Peruvian soccer team during this project and learning about the patterns of when they played well or didn’t. It was very interesting to learn about the history of their soccer team and when they really started to do poorly. I like to find out the reasons behind why things happen, so I spent a lot of time researching the team and other events happening while the team did well or poorly. Peru's soccer team was very good, one of the best in South America until 1982 when they suddenly began losing games and became one of the worst games in the world. I was very interested in finding out exactly why the team had such a sudden losing streak, I ended up finding a lot of reasons for why the team had such a sudden turn-around and found it very interesting and motivating to be able to find how history had affected the performance of the Peruvian soccer team in the past few years.
It was very hard for me to find a topic which I was interested in, and find the motivation to create a story based on this. It has been a very difficult semester for me in many ways, so being given yet another project which I had to work on was very difficult for me, and I had to work hard to make myself start it up and figure out what I would do the project on. Once I was able to work through this and find the motivation to do this project, it became more interesting than I thought it could be, and I was very satisfied with the end product. It was also difficult to go back through my writing and revise it because I kept getting lost in the words. I am not fluent in Spanish at all so it was hard to know exactly what needed to be changed and where.
I learned even more about working through hard things and getting myself motivated to do my best work in school. At first it was really hard for me to find something I was interested in to write about, but once I was able to get past this and find a topic I was interested in, I was able to finish the project. I needed to learn to work hard to find relevants and motivation in the work I do, and this project helped to show me that if I can do this, I can turn out an interesting project that I am proud of, and learn something from it.
Now that I have finished this project, and have spent a month focusing directly on Peru and its history and current events, I have been able to gain more knowledge on the culture and language of Peru. It has always been very hard for me to write in Spanish mostly because I am not motivated by the topic I was writing about. This project however, allowed me to chose a topic of my own and research it and find the parts which are interesting to me, and then turn that into a project. This was very different from other Spanish projects I have done in the past, usually I am given a topic to research, and then have to write a paper on it. Having the freedom to write what I am interested in helped me to come up with more interesting writing and helped me to write more than I usually would, and learn more words through the writing. This project helped me to get more creative with my Spanish writing and I had to look up words which I didn’t know, and was able to expand my vocabulary through writing this project. This project will help me in the future with expanding my vocabulary, coming up with more creative writing, and learning to find motivation in a project even when it seems that I could never do well or be interested in it.
I liked researching the Peruvian soccer team during this project and learning about the patterns of when they played well or didn’t. It was very interesting to learn about the history of their soccer team and when they really started to do poorly. I like to find out the reasons behind why things happen, so I spent a lot of time researching the team and other events happening while the team did well or poorly. Peru's soccer team was very good, one of the best in South America until 1982 when they suddenly began losing games and became one of the worst games in the world. I was very interested in finding out exactly why the team had such a sudden losing streak, I ended up finding a lot of reasons for why the team had such a sudden turn-around and found it very interesting and motivating to be able to find how history had affected the performance of the Peruvian soccer team in the past few years.
It was very hard for me to find a topic which I was interested in, and find the motivation to create a story based on this. It has been a very difficult semester for me in many ways, so being given yet another project which I had to work on was very difficult for me, and I had to work hard to make myself start it up and figure out what I would do the project on. Once I was able to work through this and find the motivation to do this project, it became more interesting than I thought it could be, and I was very satisfied with the end product. It was also difficult to go back through my writing and revise it because I kept getting lost in the words. I am not fluent in Spanish at all so it was hard to know exactly what needed to be changed and where.
I learned even more about working through hard things and getting myself motivated to do my best work in school. At first it was really hard for me to find something I was interested in to write about, but once I was able to get past this and find a topic I was interested in, I was able to finish the project. I needed to learn to work hard to find relevants and motivation in the work I do, and this project helped to show me that if I can do this, I can turn out an interesting project that I am proud of, and learn something from it.
Now that I have finished this project, and have spent a month focusing directly on Peru and its history and current events, I have been able to gain more knowledge on the culture and language of Peru. It has always been very hard for me to write in Spanish mostly because I am not motivated by the topic I was writing about. This project however, allowed me to chose a topic of my own and research it and find the parts which are interesting to me, and then turn that into a project. This was very different from other Spanish projects I have done in the past, usually I am given a topic to research, and then have to write a paper on it. Having the freedom to write what I am interested in helped me to come up with more interesting writing and helped me to write more than I usually would, and learn more words through the writing. This project helped me to get more creative with my Spanish writing and I had to look up words which I didn’t know, and was able to expand my vocabulary through writing this project. This project will help me in the future with expanding my vocabulary, coming up with more creative writing, and learning to find motivation in a project even when it seems that I could never do well or be interested in it.