Friday, May 15, 2009

Don't look for the breeze.

During class, when the kids hold their faces to keep in their Korean,
and when their hands shoot up like bean sprouts because they know
the right answer, I hear angels sing a lullaby, comprised of elementary
vocabulary words: early, surprise, glad, stack, sticky. We talk about
breakfast foods and I show them pictures of bacon and eggs. The
class erupts,“USA! I’m so hungry!”... and I smile and freeze the moment
in my thoughts. When did I start teaching kings and queens?

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