It’s been a period of extensive testing in many Spanish schools.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The results are out.<\/p>\n
Last night she told me that she’s been graded top of her class in Mathematica<\/em> and Lengua <\/em>(I’m sure you can work out the English translations for these).<\/p>\n Whilst I’m chuffed with her Mathematica <\/em>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.<\/p>\n But to be graded top in Lengua<\/em>?<\/p>\n In a Spanish school?<\/p>\n Against a class of (apart from one Romanian boy) Spanish children?<\/p>\n The word – ecstatic’ doesn’t even come close to describing my emotions; not within several light-years of it.<\/p>\n 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.)<\/p>\n But after she’d told me last night’s news was so excited I could hardly string words together to form a coherent sentence.<\/p>\n Proud Dad!<\/p>\n Needless to say Daughter has taken it in her stride.<\/p>\n She wanted to tell me all about her forthcoming camping trip in log cabins in Alcutar<\/em>.<\/p>\n I wanted to hear how her classmates had taken the news that an Extranjera <\/em>had done so well in their language.<\/p>\n She won that discussion too.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}