IES ACEBUCHE BILINGUAL PROJECT: MEET YOUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASSISTANT

miércoles, 17 de octubre de 2018

MEET YOUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASSISTANT

Hey There!

My name is Angelica Padilla. Right now, I´m 27 years old. However, my birthday is November 29th. So, I will be 28 years old in one month. My favorite color is green, blue, orange, and pink. I like to dance, read, hike with my dog, sleep, and eat.

I am from The United States of America. 🇺🇸 More specifically, I am from the state New Mexico. New Mexico is a state in the United States southwest region. We border Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas. We are the only place in the United States to border 4 states at once. You can visit the top left corner of my state and be in 4 places at once!

New Mexico was founded by Spanish Conquistadores in 1598 they called the newly discovered land, New Spain. 🇪🇸
In 1821, we became a part of the Mexican territory and our name changed to New Mexico. 🇲🇽
We became an official state of the United States in 1912 but we never changed our name. 🇺🇸

I was born and raised in a city named Santa Fe. Santa Fe is the Capital City of New Mexico. My family lives there and I will always call Santa Fe my home.

The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Asisi during Christmas.

The full moon shines and rises over the mountains.

Deer is a common occurrence in the backyards of some homes.

Every first week of September, we celebrate the Santa Fe Fiestas. We start off Fiestas with The Burning of Zozobra. Zozobra is a 28 meter (93 feet) puppet. We stuff the puppet with our year´s gloom (divorce papers, speeding tickets, etc) and we burn it and hope to start anew for the year.

A VIP view of Zozobra

Video of our Zozobra Event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WHhlJ08L4

My parents still live there. Here is a picture of my family and my dog. My dog's name is Penny. I miss her very much. I have two sisters. My older sister's name is Anita and my younger sister's name is Andrea. I have a fiancée named Andrew. He actually asked me to marry him in the Rioja region of Spain last summer.

I went to the University of New Mexico which is located in Albuquerque. It's about a 98 kilometer (60 mile) drive south of Santa Fe. If New Mexico skies don't have sunsets that make the sky look like it's on fire, than it's filled with hot air balloons of different special shapes.