11/7 Election Day

Tomorrow is Election Day, and my student was so shocked to hear that I had not registered to vote. I felt guilty, because I wish I had, but I didn’t submit my absentee ballot on time. I asked her who she would vote for, and she didn’t know, “Probably not Trump”, she said. In class they had to write about what they favored and did not favor with the two lead candidates. She needed a push so I was helping bounce some ideas with her, while she jotted down these ideas so she could choose. Its evident that this method helps her understand, along with better her written English. I said something along the lines of “You said you don’t like Trump, so what are some of the things you think are stupid about him?” in which she started to write “Stupid things about Trump…” and she immediately laughed and hit my arm and said “why would you have me write that!” once she realized what she had written. I am so glad that she finds humor in these translation errors between us.