Joseph, one of my morning students, is one of the reasons I will never give up on my life-long and extremely difficult quest to learn Spanish. He is a retired engineer, and a widow with three grown sons. He continues to study English for the sole purpose of holding a conversation with his grandson who lives in Miami. Joseph started in the Advanced II class but was quickly moved down into my Intermediate II course because, although he knew many, many English words, he could not formulate a sentence. Here, after many hours of hard work, you can hear his beautiful prose accentuated by his obvious love for his hometown, Riobamba.
PS - This is supposed to be a video...it's not working...spent way too long trying to make it work. If you are one of my silicon valley peeps or any computer geek and you know how to compress .mov files and then get them uploaded using an extremely slow connection please let me know. I have about 30 movies/letters I want to send out to those that wrote to my students about their favorite places. UPDATE...got it compressed to a .wmv file and even got the file uploaded but then it sat in processing mode for hours...help me please.
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