In July, we took the Summer Campers to the Community Center on 940 Garrison Avenue in the Bronx, also known as the Point.
There they met Danny, one of the instructors and made pizza.
Some of them ate their pizza straight out of the oven, but most of them decided to save their pizza for their parents against my will. I kept asking them to just eat it! When we walked outside, the pizza that they tried to save fell from my hands and they were upset with me.
Once again we are in the season of graduations…the best time of the year to hear encouraging speeches from educators and students alike.
Yesterday, I was walking from the Hispanos Unidos Garden with the Literacy Club when I ran across a beautiful family. I usually would see them in the neighborhood and we would exchange hi’s.
They looked stunning walking towards us. I asked the mom who looks like she could be the oldest sister (she’s the one in the pink) if I could take a photo of them.
My students were on the side of me chanting CONGRATULATIONS!! Over and over.
After the picture, one of the little girls who had chalk in her hand, decided to write on the building behind them. Why did she do that? The Literacy club suddenly got enraged. Their chants became rebukes and when I tried to take up for her, telling them it could easily come off with water, they turned to me and shouted at me:
RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE’S PROPERTY!! ISN’T THAT WHAT YOU TELL US?
So, in the end I agreed with them and so did the mother who told the little girl, she will have to clean it.
Jessie and Kimberly rowing in Crotona Park. Looks like they finally got the hang of rowing the boat gently down the pond.
Kimberly and Jessie. I was proud of Kimberly when she voluntary sat in the front of the boat.
Rodolfo was talking about what he wanted to be when he grew up. He said he was going to become a police officer.
I think he should think about becoming a veterinarian.
When we were about to pass this dog and its owner, I noticed there was a little boy nearby who seemed scared.
We asked the owner what happened to the little boy and the owner told us the boy was too scared to walk pass because of the dog. The owner kept assuring us that the dog was friendly.
I asked to pet it but when Rodolfo came, he went straight to Rodolfo and kept licking him. When we walked away, I caught a glimpse of the little boy. He still looked scared but I could tell he wasn’t going to be afraid for long.
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