A MEXICAN THANKSGIVING....

This is my ESL class. I have truly enjoyed teaching adult night classes over the last few months. The students come from all over (Sudan, Africa, Central and South America, Burma and Vietnam...to name a few) but primarily Mexico. Since Thanksgiving is an American holiday, we decided to celebrate Thanksgiving Mexican style (random, I know). At the beginning of class we passed along a sign up sheet for food assignments. One of the students from Mexico blurted in his broken English, "Tell Vietnam no can bring rats". I immediately shot him a look and explained that we needed to be respectful of all cultures in our class. The man from Vietnam then responded in his broken English, "It ok, rats make you strong." Apparently, in Vietnam, eating rat is not only common, but seen as a great source of protein! Needless to say, we did not have rat on the menu.