Hello there
had a most interesting day.
You know I have several children in my class who do not speak English. Well, today we had Junior Achievement in to the classroom- they took over the classroom and taught the kids about resources, or tried to teach the kids about resources. We had a very nice guy from SBC Pac Bell in our class. He didn't speak any other languages though- so I took one of the girls from Mexico into the hall to read some of her bilingual books. We read her insect book and then we made up a fruit book together- I would draw the picture, she would write the word in Spanish , and then I would write the word in English. At SOME point though, she decided I knew way more Spanish than I do, and she just started rattling on about her puebla and her escuela in Mexico and something about someone in some sort of outfit singing something about Mexico, and people in big hats, and ladies with braids throwing candies from the tops of their heads- I SWEAR to God that kid went on for over an hour. We were in the hall from 10 to 12:30- and I don't know how much of it was her talking. This girl only came to our school a week ago- and she spent all of last week crying and asking to go home. Today I saw her laughing and smiling- about what? I've no idea- although some of it was definitely about parties and food, which I THINK she had at her old school, but I'm not totally sure. If the parties were as fun as I think she said they were, I'm not surprised she doesn't think much of our school.
Rambi, I cannot tell you what a wonderful and frustrating experience it is to have someone sad open up to you, totally, in a language you don't speak. Never had anything like that happen to me before. Wild and crazy. I'm definitely taking Spanish at night school immediately. ALthough as of today I'm pretty good on fruits. |
