Monadnock Ledger-Transcript – Spanish exchange student gives back to Jaffrey-Rindge community

Conant Higher Faculty junior trade student Leyre Molinero Lopez’s has been concentrating on giving again to the neighborhood by sharing a presentation about Spain, Spanish society and language, as perfectly as about her encounter as an trade pupil, for Conant’s Interact Club, the Jaffrey-Rindge Rotary Club and not too long ago in Dorothy Meehan’s fourth-quality course at Jaffrey Quality School.

Bilingual learner and fourth-grader, Zoe Montes Munoz released Molinero  Lopez, 17, by citing their commonalities – speaking both equally English and Spanish and owning two past names, just one from their mothers and one particular from their fathers. Zoe, who has attended JGS considering the fact that 1st quality, discussed that her indigenous Mexico has retained several of its Spanish traditions.   

Bringing to lifetime the famed San Fermin Festival and its Working of the Bulls in her native Pamplona, Spain, Molinero Lopez shared Spanish traditions like eating just one grape at every single of the 12 last gongs of the clock on New Year’s Eve, along with data about Spanish King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, the afterwards commence of the college working day and later meal times.  

Molinero Lopez also defined that her trade student advantages have gone much outside of living the American teenage lifestyle where by everything is amusing and ideal, in which anyone rides close to on a yellow faculty bus and where by absolutely everyone goes to prom. She mentioned her best advantage even exceeds her improved her English. Molinero Lopez says that the unpredicted advantage of currently being an trade student is self-awareness and self-confidence. She stated she is aware of who she is and what she needs out of lifestyle.

Moliero Lopez mentioned she desires the identical for those people in her fourth-quality viewers. She explained she desires them to notice that there is lifestyle past their hometown and encourages them to understand yet another language, to travel and to take gain of opportunities. 

The next day, when asked if the fourth-graders appreciated the presentation,  Zoe claimed, “Yes. Some of the youngsters are even asking me to train them Spanish words!”