Surrounded by Love
At the end of last week’s Spanish class, we were given the assignment to wear red or pink for our next meeting on Feb. 12 th and bring treats! Pretty nice assignment! “Well, I know you like to party,” said our teacher with a grin, “and Valentine’s Day is on the 14 th , so I think we should celebrate!” The class is composed of 10 seniors, not exactly partiers! If our young, vivacious teacher hadn’t brought it up, we probably wouldn’t have even thought of having a Valentine’s Day party! Last year, she proposed celebrating with a party as well, tying it in to conversational Spanish with a Bingo game and related vocabulary words like “sweets,” “chocolate” and “love” …but not too many for fear of overloading our brains! It was a fun afternoon, bringing us closer together in the process. Getting ready for another Valentine’s Day party brings back feelings of nostalgia from my days of teaching second and third grades, when room mothers would bring in trays of cookies or cupc...
