Project Reflection
The objectives of this project were to research a country of our choice with a partner, and collect enough information to make a survival guide a traveler could use when visiting that country. The challenge extension was to apply a specific survival situation (the zombie apocalypse, traveling with family, etc.). Based off our survival guides, we wrote the lines for a skit that we performed at exhibition. My partner Katie and I chose to do Equatorial Guinea, with our survival situation being what to do if you are a suspect in the assassination of the president.
Going into this project, I knew next to nothing about Equatorial Guinea, and was pretty daunted by the prospect of having to write an entire survival guide about a country I was extremely unfamiliar. However, as my research progressed, I learned some very interesting things. By far what I was most surprised to find out was that Equatorial Guinea is the only African country with Spanish as its official language. Also, it has the highest literacy rate in all of the Sub-Saharan region. I thought it was really cool how the Spanish spoken in Equatorial Guinea (Equatoguinean Spanish) is influenced by the indigenous cultures and language surrounding it.
Some positives that came from this project for me included experience speaking Spanish in public. Initially, I found having to present a skit in front of the class for practice to be really, really scary. I wasn’t as comfortable with my speaking skills as I would’ve liked to be, and it was apparent that I wasn’t sure of myself when my partner and I performed our skit for the first time. After practicing continuously though, I felt prepared to present at exhibition. At exhibition, it was a good experience for me because I had my lines completely memorized and was able to immerse myself in the skit instead of worrying about messing up.
Going into this project, I knew next to nothing about Equatorial Guinea, and was pretty daunted by the prospect of having to write an entire survival guide about a country I was extremely unfamiliar. However, as my research progressed, I learned some very interesting things. By far what I was most surprised to find out was that Equatorial Guinea is the only African country with Spanish as its official language. Also, it has the highest literacy rate in all of the Sub-Saharan region. I thought it was really cool how the Spanish spoken in Equatorial Guinea (Equatoguinean Spanish) is influenced by the indigenous cultures and language surrounding it.
Some positives that came from this project for me included experience speaking Spanish in public. Initially, I found having to present a skit in front of the class for practice to be really, really scary. I wasn’t as comfortable with my speaking skills as I would’ve liked to be, and it was apparent that I wasn’t sure of myself when my partner and I performed our skit for the first time. After practicing continuously though, I felt prepared to present at exhibition. At exhibition, it was a good experience for me because I had my lines completely memorized and was able to immerse myself in the skit instead of worrying about messing up.