Question - bilingual opening

[Peggy Holman]

sort of.  It was a very small circle.  If you look at the pictures:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=12z8htv.a6xi9ezn&Uy=-n1ik87&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Ux=0

The opening picture is about 17 pictures in.  We mostly stood in the circle 
together.

Peggy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deborah Hartmann" <deborah at hartmann.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Question - bilingual opening


> Thanks, Peggy. Did you two walk the circle?
> deb
>
> Peggy Holman wrote:
>> When I did the OS in Colombia for the street kids, there were virtually 
>> no English speakers.  Since I don't speak Spanish, we discussed my not 
>> opening the space at all.  In the end, the sponsors felt that having this 
>> person who came so far - me -  be visible was part of the creation of a 
>> welcoming space.  So the approach we took was that I'd say a sentence in 
>> English, then my partner, Andres Agudelo, would say a paragraph in 
>> Spanish filling in all the details.
>>
>> It worked.
>>
>> from rainy Seattle,
>> Peggy
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