Day: January 28, 2010

Other People’s Business

I’m busy trying to write lesson plans for restive 8-year-olds and rebellious, judgmental teenagers. Soon I go to my fourth intensive Spanish class, for which I just finished homework: an article about how embarrassing it is to learn another language. I can’t speak Spanish but I’m starting to speak English with a Mexican accent. When Kim didn’t perform something as I expected her to, I heard myself say, “Is that all choo can do?” Bull- […]

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