Niños

Recently I´ve decided two things.

Providing that God wants me to be a mom someday...

1. I think I´m supposed to ¨adopt¨ (in some form or another) children. Maybe lots of children. (my mom here says I´m going to have 14... I´m not sure why though. I told her I could do twelve) :-) I went to my first volunteer session yesterday and was in a house with 13 children around the ages of 5-12 who will most likely never be adopted due to their disabilities. So I´ll love them for now, and miss them when I leave this place.
2. I´m speaking Spanish to my kids. Maybe they won´t be fluent (because heaven knows I´m not!!), but they´ll at least know some of the basics. Every day I´m more humbled and impressed by the bilingualism of practically every other country but my own. Today I went and sat in a 5th grade science class for two hours, and both the teacher and students knew more about the science vocabulary in ENGLISH than I did. I would have no idea how to put kingdom, phylum, class, genus, species into a second language, and yet that is the every day routine for these kids. The entire school is in English. woah, did I feel uneducated.