This weekend I went to go see the new Harry Potter movie at the HiperPais. I didn´t understand everything going on in the movie, and as such, I´m not in much of a position to comment on the content. However, I can say that going to movies here is interesting because approximately halfway through the movie the lights go up, and everyone takes an intermission.
I´m getting more video media here than I ever would at home. My host family´s black and white TV is constantly tuned to telenovelas. Telenovelas are these amazingly overacted Hispanic soap operas. They go on for years, paring off various characters, finding long lost twins and children, killing off other characters, putting people into comas, and so on and forth. I´ve been using them to learn Spanish. The local kids use them to learn gender relations, judging by the drama I´ve witnessed.
My family follows the telenovelas Zorro and Dame Chocolate. They also follow the talkshow Laura in America, a Jerry Springer spin off with a host ironically named Dr. Laura. But by far my favorite show is Los Hermanos Koala, a children´s TV show. It appears suspiciously Kenya, except with koalas and set in in the outback. Same sort of snappy themesong, same sort of dancing animals. The koalas fly around in a plane, helping various other outback animals. I´m late to school almost every day because I want to finish watching it.
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