Last week I visited Fox Chapel Country Day School in Pennsylvania. Kind of humbling…. I didn’t get top billing but birthdays are important.
And check out the Tap-Taps kids had made.
And Painted Dreams.
These kids were well prepared even though it was first day back to school after Thanksgiving break.
Me: Krick
Students: Krack
This is how story telling begins in Haiti. A promise between storyteller and audience. And stories I told. From my life growing up, life as a writer to Haiti, Malawi, Kenya, and the Navajo Nation…
As I have said these kids were well prepared and there is always one stumper question from the audience. These questions often have to do with my age or how much money I make…but one thoughtful fifth grader in this group wanted to know:
What is the most important thing you have contributed in the countries where you have lived?
Wow! I stuttered something about my husband being a doctor and saving lives…but what have I done? A humbling question. I guess the most important thing I have done is that I have made friends and I have come home to share what I have learned from kids around the world with kids in the US…maybe that is something….
And a postscript here: It was Native American month in November. Note the bulletin board:
Students at Dine College on the Navajo reservation once asked me what I had been taught about American Indians growing up…Ahhh…hmmmm…Not much I had to admit. Most of what I knew I learned myself from books…Another humbling question…Maybe things have changed since I was young?