My name is Haroun Khalid, and I am a geography major here at UBC. I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and went to a Spanish immersion elementary school. After leaving that school, I quickly forgot all of the Spanish that I ever knew. I distinctly remember a moment in middle school when I fully realized that I no longer spoke the language, and since the I’ve been trying to learn it fluently. Since entering university, I’ve also taken two history courses focusing on Latin American areas, and I thought that it would be a good idea to take this class to continue those studies.