La Gata Part Two

Whooo!  I better get moving on La Gata posts or else I'll be too far behind.  Forgive me for not giving very in depth details, this is going to be to the point or I'll never finish!
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Mauriano

Pablo's brother.
Sneaky and secretly in love with La Gata.

Not sure why but I love Mauriano!
Not really sure what it is about him.
The way he talks?  His looks? The fact I tend to like bad boys?   Hmmm, still figuring this one out and thought I'd let you all know I have a crush on him.  Anyways, moving on.....




El Silencio

La Gata's father.  He was in jail for a long time.  He recently was released and has vowed to get revenge against the people who robbed him of everything.....which happens to be Pablo's family.  La Gata has no idea that El Silencio is her father.  He befriended this guy who is from the slum where La Gata lives and has since taken La Gata into his home and has been helping her with the twins and hired people to teach her the proper way to act at dinner parties etc.  He is rich and HATES los Martinez de Negretes (Pablo's family).  He does love La Gata though and is fighting for her to be respected and recognized as a member of a higher class!

OH! and now that La Gata has money (or at least is living in a masion and her mystery father is rich) she has now transformed from
this



             to this

WOW! QUE GUAPA!!!!!
Which brings us to:
Fela

Let me start by saying, I know mental illness is no laughing matter. However, I couldn't help but to giggle just a tad when it comes to Fela.  Fela is.... you guessed it!  La Gata's mother.  La Gata does not know this yet.  She discovered Fela one day in the slum where she lives.  Fela, always carries a baby doll around and insist it is her hija (her daughter).  She's a tad looney.  La Gata has a big heart though and always makes sure she is okay.  Just recently, El Silencio (La Gata's dad) found out Fela is his wife who he thought had died.  He's cleaned her all up and shes living in the mansion too.  He took her to the doctor about her mental conditon and they are hoping her memory will start to come back.  It has started to come back already.  El Silencio y Fela know that La Gata is there daughter although.....they still haven't told her!  UGH! What's the hold up?

Ok, let me speed this up!
Augustin, Pablo's father knows that El Silencio is out for revenge.  Augustin has turned to drinking.  El Silencio recently made the family throw La Gata and Pablo an engagement party where they were suppose to apologize publicly due to the way they continuously humiliated La Gata.  Augustin, got drunk and humiliated her more at the party and well.....it was a disaster.  La Gata y El Silencio are furious.  Oh and he is secretly in love with Fela.  He knows her from the past although I'm still unclear as to how.

There is also Monica

who is Pablo's cousin and also his EX-fiance.   She's a good person although her mom and Mauriano fill her head with crazy stuff in hopes that she'll cause big enough problems that Pablo will take  her back and La Gata will be left open for Mauriano to swoop in.





Virginia

Pablo and Mauriano's sister.  She is blind.  She is in love with Centavito, who is from the slum where La Gata lives.  He is a nice guy but of course her mom is about to go ballistic and has forbid her from seeing him!




I'm starting to think I have taken on more than I can chew with this novela.  There are story lines everywhere. There are other characters that I just can't get into right now.   Hubby, son and I are really into this novela although it does get a little corny at times.
For example,  how could so much miscommunication go on between Pablo and La Gata?  Could he not send her money for a cell phone to keep in touch?  I mean his family is rich!  Could he not send her money to go to an internet cafe so they could keep in touch via email?  How come La Gata's face was always sucia (dirty)?  Could she not splash some water on her face before she went to meet Pablo daily?  What about her braiding her hair?  Couldn't he buy her some shoes and a brush?
These were some of the questions we had which made us giggle.
I get it.  It's a novela.  At this point it doesn't matter.  We watched in the beginning because it was a bit humorous but well played Univision, you got us!  We are hooked!

La Gata

Image credit : gratisnovelas.net

Okay, so this is an interesting novela for many reasons.   I hate to say this, but it is so stupid it is epic! Hubby and I watched the 1st episode and laughed quite a bit.  It was so ridiculous!  Guess what though....   we are now hooked and tune in every night.

Even our son is watching it with us.  We are letting him count the time watching this novela towards his reading time. (Yay for creative but probably not the best parenting!)  We set our tv on CC3 (closed captions in English). It's a win win situation.  He is practicing his reading and hubby and I no longer hear repeatedly... "what is happening now?"

So, what is the novela about?

It's about an extremely poor girl named, Esmeralda but whom everyone calls "La Gata" (stray cat). I'm assuming she got this name due to the fact she carries around a black cat all the time.  La Gata was taken in at a young age by a lady named Dona Rita after La Gata lost both of her parents.

Image credit :  Univision.com

Dona Rita is sneaky, mean, y una abusadora! She made La Gata as well as some other kids she took in beg for money on the streets.  If they didn't come home with enough money to make her happy, she was mean!!!

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La Gata and Pablo as kids  

While La Gata was suppose to be out begging for money she met a boy named Pablo.  He taught her how to read.  They had a good connection and built a really strong friendship.  They would meet at a certain spot everyday and read, talk, play around.  Eventually their childhood friendship turned into love.

Pablo is like really rich.  I mean really really rich.  He lives in a mansion, has servants, a chauffeur, goes to the best schools etc. Pablo and La Gata hide their little meetings because it's not cool
for someone like her to be hangin' with someone like him.

Ay! Yay! Yay!
Pablo's parents are LOCOS!  Once the mom finds out about his son hanging out with La Gata, she goes ballistic!  La mama de Pablo calls La Gata every name in the book and forbids him to see her.
See the cutie in the background?  That's Pablo's brother,  Mauriano.  More about him later.


Okay, so Pablo decides to go to New York to study art.  He and La Gata have plans to re-unite when he returns.  Before he goes, they secretly wed.  He goes to New York, she goes back to the slum where she lives.

!! SURPRISE!!  La Gata ends up finding out she is pregnant....with TWINS!
She goes to Pablo's house to let his parents know they are going to be grandparents.  She figured they would finally accept her.
WRONG!  It totally backfires.  The parents have the marriage annulled.....secretly.

So, she is waiting for Pablo to return from New York believing they will be one big happy family because she has the marriage certificate, they are married, and she's getting ready to have his children....bla..bla...bla....

All the while, Pablo's family is planning some major deception tactics for when he returns.  They basically tell Pablo that La Gata got married with another man and had kids with him!

DA DUM DA!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll leave it there for now....  There's lots to cover.  I'm still missing a bunch of characters and story lines and I promise I'll get to them.

Are you watching La Gata?  I've almost got you caught up.  Don't worry if you are not fluent in Spanish.  Change the caption setting on your tv to CC3.  I had no idea novelas were even available in English until I saw that it was available in English pop up on the screen.  How cool is that!  La Gata comes on Univision, Mon-Fri 7 p.m. Eastern time.

Projects

Yes, I've been MIA again.  Why, you ask?  Projects!  We have been doing a TON of projects lately....and not home projects!
Our son is an advanced content science class this year.  After getting some info from the teacher,  I learned that he is solely being graded on his projects with a test thrown in here and there.

Now, let me just say that I feel like I am being paid back for putting my parents through complete HELL my senior year. Have I ever mentioned I was not the best student?  I had the potential but my priorities were all out of whack!  Boys!  Enough said.  My parents really went above and beyond to make sure I graduated. I remember my dad going to the library and spending about $50 copying pages out of books that were not allowed to be checked out and my mother actually doing my language arts final paper because I was out doing... lord knows what! Apparently, I was not concerned about graduating.
My mom said I'd get paid back one day...
That day has arrived!  Not only is this school year going to be FULL of Science projects but the Mexican insist on helping!


So far we have completed 3 projects and I'm surprised the cops didn't show up at our house due to all the screaming and yelling.  Yep, we had some disagreements.  I went to and graduated from a school here in the states.  My husband did not and has NEVER EVER done any type of school project before.  I appreciate him wanting to help and actually I think he's understanding the concepts now. Our most recent project was his idea and it came out great!

So, I figured I'd share our  my son's projects along with the misadventures during the process.  Luckily Pinterest and the internet have been a life saver!  So many people have shared ideas and it really got our creative juices flowing on some of these projects.

I've got 3 to catch y'all up on and the 1st was a doozie!  What would you do for an "A"?  I can't believe what we did for our first project in hopes of getting the best score possible!!!
To be continued...