Big (2nd hand) boast…

It’s been a period of extensive testing in many Spanish schools.

Daughter’s school (I can already see your mental light bulbs going on as if so many refrigerator doors had just been opened) has been no exception to the examination regime.

The results are out.

Last night she told me that she’s been graded top of her class in Mathematica and Lengua (I’m sure you can work out the English translations for these).

Whilst I’m chuffed with her Mathematica result I’m not that surprised; her mother holds degrees in Higher Mathematics and Computing Science, so it’s a given (in most realities) that she’d get some at-home encouragement and tuition.

But to be graded top in Lengua?

In a Spanish school?

Against a class of (apart from one Romanian boy) Spanish children?

The word – ecstatic’ doesn’t even come close to describing my emotions; not within several light-years of it.

When I rang her a couple of nights ago she told me off for making her laugh so much she developed hiccups (strangely enough, this happens almost every time I speak to her! Go figure that, my friends.)

But after she’d told me last night’s news was so excited I could hardly string words together to form a coherent sentence.

Proud Dad!

Needless to say Daughter has taken it in her stride.

She wanted to tell me all about her forthcoming camping trip in log cabins in Alcutar.

I wanted to hear how her classmates had taken the news that an Extranjera had done so well in their language.

She won that discussion too.

🙂

B.

7 thoughts on “Big (2nd hand) boast…

  1. Renault Lengua? 😉

    Seriously, that’s great! Every right to feel proud, Dad! 🙂

  2. Brennig

    You are right to be proud. That’s a stonking achievement.

    Would I be right in guessing that as her genes on her mother’s side have given her a mathematical talent, then so have her Welsh genes perhaps given her a natural ear for language.

    Also (again courtesy of her father’s genes)I wouldn’t be surprised if she reads a lot more than her rural friends. If so then her vocabulary and grammar is probably better than the natives.

    Either way well done Brennig’s daughter and what a benefit to be bilingual so young.

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