Looking like a language, sounding like a race

For this week, I decided to cover a talk by professor Jonathan Rosa about Latino identities in the United States.  I was really excited to attend this talk because it is a topic that interests me especially because I am a Spanish major.  I've noticed that many of the topics of my articles have been centered around language and the Spanish speaking world.  I have almost inserted myself into my own sort of "beat."  Indeed, one of my articles was about a foreign film festival at UNH that featured Spanish films and another one of my articles was about a UNH student who went to Costa Rica to study sustainable energy.  That is what I appreciate about this class; although it is at times difficult to come up with story ideas, we are not held down by certain subjects we have to cover.  I get to cover material I already know something about and through my stories I expand my knowledge of that subject even further.  So while covering the Jonathan Rosa talk not only did I get some awesome quotes for an article I'm about to write, I also learned some really interesting points about Latino anxieties regarding their identity in modern America, and I can carry that knowledge with me as I continue my Spanish studies.