About a month ago, Kt's class was studying the continent of Africa. She offered up her father as a "cultural expert" to go in and do a little presentation for the class. T went on in and delivered, and it was fun, I'm just not sure about him being an expert.
Now Em's class is studying different cultures from around the world. She has been waiting for her turn for her father to come to her class, so T went ahead and volunteered to come in and talk about... Africa. Now, clearly, he is not African. So I wrote to Em's teacher and said that typically T's dad and I have come in and done a presentation on China. When talking about culture, it's usually good to have someone from that culture! Unfortunately, T's dad has just completed his last of 8 rounds of chemo and is no shape to join her class, or any class for that matter!
So the schedule looks like this: tomorrow I am going in to talk to Em's class about China, Thursday T's going in to talk about Africa and then next week, he's talking about Africa again to the other half of third grade. I'm beginning to think we are culturally confused!
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