Community Practice Number Ten

For my tenth, and final community practice I went with the class to see the movie "Las Muchachas". It was a Spanish film that was supposed to be 33 minutes but was actually longer than that. Originally a different movie was supposed to play but something changed and they played this one instead. At the begnning of the movie on November 24th a woman tells the story about how she was in school and had heard that the president had been overthrown. In her freshmen year at age 14, all of the students and the principal had to sit down for a meeting. When he began to talk he started insulting all of them. All of the other females sat and took it at first, but she was not putting up with that disrespect. Instead, she got mad and got up and told him she did not come here to listen to him insult her and all of the other girls at the school. She left, and the others ended up all following her. Another woman, Ada Ramos, started riding bikes in her neighborhood at age 13. She would always get invited to competitions around the neighborhood, and always won despite the fact that people did not accept that she was a girl and was good at doing the same things as the other boys. She got involved in cycling, and was called the "bike signorina". She saw that history was always written by men, but in these two cases they were young girls. They started participating in the same activities as men, and Ada never thought she would be telling the story from a woman's point of view. I thought that this movie was beneficial to watch because it gave us an outlook on how Spanish culture used to be.