My Spanish Notes - Feliz Día de Acción de Gracias - Happy Thanksgiving

¡Feliz Día del Guajolote! Posted: 28 Nov 2013 09:20 AM PST If you want to tell your Spanish speaking friends Happy Thanksgiving, then this is the phrase you want: Feliz Día de Acción de Gracias Happy Thanksgiving That's all fine and dandy, but it gets old and it's not very much fun.  Lucky for you there are a few other ways to say it that might impress your Spanish friends. But before we get to those, let's talk about a few words you may not be familiar with.  The first one is pavo. Here's a pavo: That's right, it's a turkey.  And unlike with fish, pavo is the same word for seeing one in the wild and eating it on your plate. Como preparar un sandwich de pavo How to make a turkey sandwhich That piece of information is probably not a big surprise, I'm sure many of you already know the word pavo.  But you may be surprised to hear that pavo isn't the only word for turkey. In Mexico a pavo is also called guajolote.  In Guatemala it's a chompipe.  Cuba?  guanajo.  There are probably even more words for turkey, but I think you get point. So what does any of that have to do with Thanksgiving you ask? I'm sure nearly all of my American readers know have heard the phrase "Happy Turkey Day".  Well with your new found Spanish vocabulary for turkey you can now say the equivalent in Spanish. Felíz día del pavo Happy Turkey Day That's pretty generic and should be understood anywhere.  Now if you want to impress your Mexican friends, you can say: Feliz Día del Guajolote Got Guatemalan friends?  Wish them Happy Thanksgiving with this: Feliz Día de Chompipe Well, that's it for today!  Except for one last thing: ¡Chao!

No me baja Posted: 28 Nov 2013 07:12 AM PST If you don't know what a regla is, it's a ruler.  But that's not the only definition of regla, nor is it the definition we're here to talk about. When you hear someone refer to la regla, it's a way of referring to the menstruation cycle, or el ciclo menstrual.  You can also say periodo menstrual. La regla me vino por primera vez con 15 My period came for the first time when I was 15 No me viene la regla My period didn't come But just like in English, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Estoy en mis días I'm on my period Ando en mis días I'm on my period Está con la regla She's on her period  I'm on my period, don't talk to me When it comes to talking about when "la regla" did or didn't arrive, you can use the verb venir like the examples above but there's also another very common option using the verb bajar. No me baja My period didn't start Me bajó hace una semana My period started a week ago Me debía de haber bajado desde el día 21 My period should have started on the 21st If you have 52 seconds, want to practice your listening skills and want a good laugh, then this video is for you.  Be sure to listen for the phrases we just talked about. That's it for today!  I hope you all learned something and got a good laugh from the video. ¡Hasta la próxima!

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Ivan's Peru Trip November 2013: 12,507' (3,812 m) Lake Titicaca, Surface Elevation...

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Finca El Pacifico Photo: Vinito rosado!

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Ivan's Peru Trip November 2013: 10 Hour Trip, 6 ruin sites, lunch at 14 222.4 feet...

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Ivan's Peru Trip November 2013: Aguas Calientes (now officially Machu Picchu Puebl...

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Ivan's Peru Trip November 2013: Machu Picchu. Wow!

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Most Watched Videos - Pan Flute and Piano

Published on Nov 24, 2013

This collection contains my shorter piano & panflute videos which have the best 'Watch Times'. Enjoy! :-)

The pieces in this collection are:

Piano

At Your Feet (Grieg)
Prelude #13 (Chopin) 4:03
Illusion (Grieg) 8:55
Prelude in C (Bach) 13:45
Fugue in C (Bach) 16:28
Japanese Love Song (J.S. Zamecnik) 19:20
Waltz in F Major (Original Composition) 21:48
Sonata #15 (Pastoral), 2nd Movement (Beethoven) 24:10
Amazing Grace (Original Arrangment) 32:03
Largo (Handel) 36:12
Bolero (Original Composition) 42:29
The Way Home (Original Composition) 47:05
Romanze (Brahms) 50:25
Intermezzo In A Minor, Op. 116 #2 (Brahms) 55:00
Waltz in A-Flat (Brahms) 58:49
Prelude #4 (Chopin) 1:01:13
Waltz #3 in A Minor (Chopin) 1:03:40
Sarabande in D Minor (Handel) 1:10:52
Fantaisie-Impromptu (Chopin) 1:12:12
Gymnopedie #1 (Original Composition) 1:17:16
Gregorian Chant Improvisation (Original Improvisation) 1:20:53
Felecity Rag (Scott Joplin & Scott Hayden) 1:23:25
TheMaple Leaf Forever (Alexander Muir) 1:27:17
The Smiling Spring (Scottish Song) 1:29:33
Gymnopedie #5 (Original Composition) 1:31:00
Gymnopedie #6 (Original Composition) 1:32:33
A Japanese Cowboy In Paris (Original Composition) 1:34:44
Gymnopedie #3 (Original Composition) 1:36:22
Summer's Eve (Grieg) 1:39:03
Last Rose of Summer (Von Flowtow) 1:42:05
"The Cat's Fugue" (Scarlatti) 1:44:27
John Anderson, My Jo (Scottish Song) 1:47:55
The Swan (Saint-Saens) 1:50:14
The Wind Over The Plains (Debussy) 1:52:36
White Key Improvisation (Original Composition) 1:55:09
Etude #26 (Chopin) 1:58:13
Nocturne #19 (Chopin) 2:01:06
Searchlight Rag (Scott Joplin) 2:05:50
Gymnopedie #2 ½ (Original Composition) 2:12:51

Panflute

Aloha Oe (Queen Liliʻuokalani) 2:16:20
Siretsi Tars Yaran (Armenian song) 2:18:31
How Great Thou Art (Swedish Melody) 2:21:58
Irish Washerwoman (Irish Jig) 2:24:55
John Anderson, My Jo (Scottish Song) 2:26:19
Paddy Whack (Irish Jig) 2:28:07
Sephardic Chant (Hebrew Chant) 2:29:36
Smash the Window (Irish Jig) 2:31:08
Indian Summer Panflute I (Last Rose of Summer and Others)2:32:34

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Huatulco’s living legend – The Cross of the Sea

Published on November 22nd, 2013 | by Marco Schiapparelli

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Huatulco’s living legend – The Cross of the Sea

Legends and myths make up Huatulco as much as its cliffs covered in deep jungle or the emerald and blue bays. They speak of pirates, saints and Indians. They make up the towns and villages, the cities and monuments. They are are the foundations of Huatulco. The biggest legend of them all still carries on nowadays… Do you know its story?

The Cross of the Sea

The legend reckons that during the first century A.D. a bearded, white man arrived on a small boat to the coast where nowadays lies Santa Cruz Huatulco. The man was carrying an enormous log, that somewhat resembled the shape of a cross. Once he got to the beach, which was populated by Zapotec and Mixtec Indians, he raised the log in the middle of it without any help. He then spent some time with the locals teaching them new agricultural techniques and cultural improvements. Finally, he left with the same boat he had arrived in.

Some say that this man was Quetzalcoatl, while catholic sources believe he was St Thomas the Apostle.

The town received its name from the cross this man left there (Santa Cruz means the Holy Cross in Spanish). The cross, from that moment on has been object of worship and adoration from the local Indians and even from other ethnic groups from the surroundings.

The origin of “Huatulco”

About two centuries before the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the Huatulco area was colonized by the Mexicas, who we commonly name Aztecs. After noticing the locals worshiped the wooden cross, they called the place “Cuauhtolco”, a Nahuatl word which means “the place where the wooden log is adored”.

The Cross lived on!

After the Spanish conquest in 1521, Huatulco was one of the most active ports of New Spain. The small port thrived and grew, but in 1587 it was terribly attacked. The privateer Thomas Cavendish looted the area for months, forcing the local population to escape to the villages of Pueblo Viejo (Old Town) and Piedra de Moros (Moors Stone) – two towns you can visit with the Local Villages and Traditions tour and the Outback Safari tour!

The legend of the Cross of the Sea reached its climax exactly during this historical period…

The pirate Cavendish was a protestant and during his pillage was intrigued by the local worship of the cross, a symbol of Catholicism. He tried to destroy the sacred log in several different ways with no success. The cross was attacked with knives and axes, but it didn’t get cut. It was set on fire, but it didn’t burn. Finally, it was tied with ropes and chains to Cavendish’s ship, in order to pull it down into the ocean, but the ship stopped, unable to move!

Nowadays…

After some time, the Bishop of Oaxaca ordered the log to be cut (with good intentions!). They were to make three big crosses: one was sent to the Vatican and another one to the Cathedral of Oaxaca. Some sources say the third one is in Mexico City, while others reckon it is in Puebla.

From the process of making the three crosses, several “discarded” pieces of wood were used to make smaller crosses. One of them is conserved inside the Chapel of Santa Cruz, which you can visit on the Huatulco City Tour, and another one is in the Church of Santa Maria Huatulco, which you can visit during our 3 Levels of Huatulco.