Daily Prompt

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    A Teacher’s Purpose

    Weekend In my room, at my hostel in Barcelona, Spain I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I found my purpose in that small, shared room. My roommates (three Canadian girls) and I were sitting around one night just talking in our room. They were on a Spring Break trip. They were telling me about how they were enjoying Spain. Their frustration was mounting because of their difficulty communicating. They wanted to know why couldn’t people learn English, that would be so much simpler. I bit my tongue. I wanted to tell them that they were in Spain, why hadn’t they learned Spanish before travelling. They continued…