on my desk
June 5, 2008
There are lots of things that I like about teaching in Colombia. Dark faces and hair. Precious little accents. Hugs in the mornings. Kisses in the afternoons. Open air classrooms on pretty campuses. The challenge to learn a new language. The chance to meet new people, to see a new world. Learning to appreciate coffee and chocolate.
The last two mornings I’ve come to school and found a bag stuffed full of guallabas, small red fruits that remind me of muscedines, on my desk. They’re tart and have tiny seeds and I could eat them every one in a single sitting. I loved the tootsie rolls and diet coke that littered my desk in Mississippi, but there’s just something precious about a child bringing in a bag of fruit that they picked just for me. It tastes sweeter, I think.
Fruit on my desk. Yeah, that’s another thing I like about teaching in Colombia.
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June 5th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Sounds delicious. One thing though. I don’t think it would take me moving to Colombia to appreciate coffee and chocolate. Already got that one down.
June 5th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
A gift is always sweeter when coming from a child!
June 5th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
The coffee and chocolate sounds WONDERFUL! But considering your weight goals and the marathon prep, that fruit sounds much better. I would love to see a picture of you and your children in class.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:38 am
I would much rather get fruit than 10,000 drawings of a horse and “Mrs. McNeill is the best!” from Victoria (name not changed for privacy purposes).