Journal #2

With my time I have been spending at Escuela Vieau School I have not been working with the kids like most the other students in our class. But rather I have been working Monday nights with the adult’s on teaching them English. This has been fun and tuff at the same time. Although working with them is rewording when they appear to be learning what it is I am trying to teach them at times when they all start speaking in Spanish and looking at me and asking me questions in Spanish it get very difficult to work with them, and I feel out of place. Last week I was working with a woman that is on staff at Escuela Vieau and she started to ask the people we were teaching about where they came from and how it is that they got to the states. Some parts of this conversation I wish I never heard it started to challenge my belief system. I went into this service learning project not wanting to know this people past wishing I could remain ignorant to the fact that many of them are illegally in the states, knowing the hole time in the back of my head that there was a good shot many of them are. That is a fact I can no longer remain ignorant too after last week. The idea of people sneaking in to the United States of America has always been a scary thought to me but I will try not to let it affect my performance at Escuela Vieau.