¡Hola estudiantes! ¡Qué sorpresa más linda! (What a lovely surprise!) Gracias por tu mensaje, Julia y Lupe. Estoy contenta que estén bien, y que estén disfrutando este año en St. Paul. (I'm very happy that you all are doing well, and that you're enjoying this year at St. Paul.)
Qué pena that you haven't gotten un(a) profesor(a) de español yet. I hope that Ferndale is able to find a great one for you soon, and that you are practicing in the meantime! I'm still adding canciones to the playlist on Grooveshark for la clase de espanol, so feel free to go check them out, or leave me a comment if there are songs that you've discovered that I should add!
I was thinking about Ustedes recently en el 1 y el 2 de noviembre, el Día de los Muertos! Fui al Mexicantown para ver las ofrendas, or altars, that different people and businesses created, and had a lot of fun looking at the different sites. Compré pan de muerto, the special bread that we ate last year, and brought it to school for my language arts students to try. I also bought some tamales con queso y jalapeños muy deliciosos en La Gloria Bakery, y bebé (drank) chocolate español en el Cafe con Leche. Compré postales (postcards) de Día de los Muertos en Xochi's Gift Shop, también; pueden verlos aquí:
It's been fun teaching 7th grade language arts so far, especially since I'm getting to bring in a lot of the ideas and materials that we worked on en la clase de español, since our current unit is on immigrants! Here's a bulletin board that the class and I have created of famous immigrants from all over the world, in case you want to check it out!
Les extraño a todos (I miss you all), and am glad you wrote!
¡Gracias, y cuídense mucho (take care)!
Señora Greaves
