The kiddos

Jon and I attend classes at the Grace Educational Center, a Christian k-12 bilingual school that emphasizes English. The intensive Spanish program is new, and Jon and I are the only students. So it´s like 7 hours of private tutoring 4 days a week. The staff has welcomed us like family and the kids treat us like celebrities. The first day most of them were scared to talk to us. It was kind of shocking the first time I heard 30 2nd graders yell "Hola Cori!" Now they want to talk to us all the time, usually in Spanish because their teachers tell them that we are here to learn. Most of them speak English incredibly well, though, and want to practice with us. On Thursday Jon and I got pulled into the 2nd grade English class. They asked us questions in English for about twenty minutes, and I was very impressed. My favorite question came from a noisy fellow in the front row. He prefaced his question with "I don´t know if it is okay to ask...but..." That´s when the teacher started to look worried. "Well, are you two....you know....just friends...or...more?" I laughed so hard I was crying in front of all the 7 year olds.