A Hectic Day -- Without Spanish
Today we did not practice Spanish at all! This happened because we had so little time together with Gabriel, 11, at his team's soccer practice and Mario, 9, and I had his team's scrimmage. After the scrimmage, Mario and I went to the Ephrata Middle School open house. Gabriel's teacher said he was doing a great job interpreting from English to Spanish for a child that just moved here from Ecuador. "I would love to be able to speak two languages fluently," she said. She asked Mario if he was also completely bilingual and he said, "sort of." The truth is that while Gabriel has an excellent foundation in Spanish from staying home with us and Spanish speaking baby sitters until he was four. Mario, on the other hand, went to an English-speaking preschool when he was two. His Spanish has never been very fluent. Tomorrow we will read and converse, Dios mediante!