¿Qué hora es?

Before this semester, I really never had any interest in watching telenovelas. I watched maybe a few minutes when I was flipping through channels to see how much of the Spanish I could understand, but I never followed any of the characters or really cared about the outcome. I always assumed that telenovelas were just like American soap operas. I find soap operas to be dry, shallow, and overall not very entertaining. (When I'm at my grandparents' house, I get my fare share of soap operas because they watch about 4 hours of them every day.) I got very sick of soap operas very fast, which is the reason that I never tried actually following any telenovelas. Telenovelas were to me just made of over-dramatic, bad acting in Spanish instead of in English, kind of like this "telenovela" called ¿Qué hora es?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WckCw_-7e3M

But in the past two classes, some of the clips of telenovelas the Dr. A showed us actually sparked my interest. Some of them seemed to me like real stories with real characters that I would enjoy watching and finding out how they face the challenges of life. Juana, La Virgen really stuck out to me. After seeing la entrada, I wanted to watch it to find out about Jauna, how she felt when she was pregnant with a child that she shouldn't have had, how she was treated by others, and how she fell in love with the father of her baby. I didn't think that I would be very interested in the life of a fictional character from a telenovela, but seeing all the different types of telenovelas, and seeing that they are much different from American soap operas, I'm excited to start watching the telenovela I choose, and following the ups and downs of the life of the protagonist.

Samantha Peykoff