Making of Latin America

 Hello Emma. I agree with you as to not knowing whether the villages demonstrated exploitation or not. I feel like in this situation as you said that it really depends on the point of view the person. To me I find that this is more of a way to keep the culture alive and to educate others of the culture. I think that something like this allows for misconceptions to be addressed and to be fixed. 

This week, we talked about a poem by Andres Bello named "Ode to Topical Agriculture." I found the poem to be very interesting as everyone had a different interpretation of what they thought Bello was talking about. I feel like having 2 days really helped me understand more of what the poem was really talking about. Originally, my thought was that Bello was talking about how agriculture was superior to city life and that destroying nature, in general, was wrong. But, contrary to my belief Bello believed that destroying the land for a city was wrong compared to destroying the land for agriculture was good. During, our learning community activity I was a spy and during my time with a different group someone brought up the idea of organized nature was better than chaotic nature. I found this to be really interesting because that is really what Bello was talking about. He wanted to tame the chaotic nature to where humans could industrialize the land so they could control nature, n

 Over my winter break, I went back to working in town at a daycare my cousin owns. I absolutely love working there and find it to be more of a fun pastime rather than actual work. Other than working, I spent time with my family. During the final week of break, my family and I ended up getting sick with covid and had to quarantine. Due to this I was out this first week but should be able to be back in class next week.