My First Spanish Club Meeting: Noche Prehispanica

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For my first Spanish Club meeting I went to Noche Prehispanica. In the event it talked about the history of hispanics and where they came from. In the event they had a talk about Aztecs, Incas and Mayans. I always enjoyed a historical talk about any cultures but I did enjoy hearing them talk about my own history. I know somewhat history about Aztecs, Mayan and Incas history but I always enjoy learning more. They also had hispanic food and what I think was some Aztec food that was good especially the tamillias, me and my boyfriend enjoyed that the most and the chocolates. I didn’t understand much about the poems some of the people were reading and it being in spanish made it worse because I barely understand poems in english. I did understand

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