Saturday, January 12, 2008
EL CENTRO CULTURAL HISPANO
Nancy pidio a algunos de sus compañeros de trabajo y amigos que nos ayudaran a adaptarnos a nuestro Nuevo ambiente… asi fue como conocimos a Cynthia, Wooley una maestra Americana que habla español casi a la perfeccion y que ama nuestro pais y su Cultura… la primera cita con ella fue en el Centro Cultural Hispano, en la calle 4th, http://www.nhccnm.org/ ese dia habia un evento del Instituto Cervantes para dar a conocer los cursos de español…
Me llamo mucho la atención que en la entrada del museo habia una manta que anunciaba un evento llamado “La presencia Africana en Mexico”, como muchos saben se dice que mexico tiene 3 raices: la indigena, la africana y la europea. En una mampara a la entrada del Centro Cultural se mencionaba a Yanga… una poblacion de mi estado que lleva ese nombre en honor a un esclavo negro muy importante para la historia de esta region.
Despues de visitar el lugar , Cynthia nos invito a un restaurante con comida tipica de Nuevo Mexico muy cerca del centro Cultural Hispano (Barela’s), este es tambien el nombre de un barrio en ABQ.. Cesar pidio pozole, yo carne adobada y Chyntia un chile relleno. Cynthia nos dio nuestra primera clase : cuando se habla de Chiles en Nuevo Mexico la pregunta es: “Rojo o verde?” . Para llegar ahi Cesar y yo caminamos y aproveche para tomar algunas fotos camino al Centro Cultural.
Nancy asked some of her friends and colleagues to help us in adapting to our new environment… that was how we met Cynthia Wooley, and American ESL teacher that speaks Spanish almost perfectly and who is in love with our country and its culture. We met for the first time at the Hispanic Cultural Center on fourth street. On that day, there was an opening house from the Cervantes Institute, so they were giving information about their Spanish courses.Something that called my attention was the fact that there was a big poster announcing an event called “The African presence in Mexico” as many of you know, it is says that Mexico has 3 roots: native Indian, African and European. There was a big notice at the entrance of the cultural center that mentioned Yanga… a town in my state that has that name to honor an African slave who was very important for the history of this region.After the Hispanic Center Cynthia invited us to a restaurant of typical new Mexican Food very near that center called barela’s , this is also the name of that area in ABQ… Cesar had a pozole, I had carne adobada and Cyntia a Chile relleno. Cynthia gave us our first class: when one talks about chillis in new Mexico, the question is “red or green”? . Cesar and I walked to get to the Cultural Center and I had the chance to take some pictures on our way. 

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