Thursday, October 2, 2008

For Chanda

My five-year old students are
learning to read.

Yesterday one of them pointed at a
picture in a zoo book and said,

'Look at this! It's a frickin'
elephant!'

I took a deep breath, then
asked...'What did you call
it?'

'It's a frickin' elephant! It says so
on the picture!'

And so it
does...