ESL class at San Francisco City College
I remember one day at San Francisco City College, in an ESL class, the teacher started taking roll, calling out each student’s name and looking at each student’s face. The ESL class was free and you could attend classes after you registered. Everyday different people came, immigrants, temporary residents as well as international students attended the class. On one particular day, about 50 students were in the class but the teacher remembered all the names, including mine, and didn’t even make a mistake, even though it was only my 2nd or 3rd time joining the class. This surprised me very much because I know how difficult it is to remember foreign names. The teacher, a woman, looked as if she were a mixed-race girl with a small body, brown skin, big eyes and long, black, wavy hair. I thought she was pretty but she wasn’t white nor black nor Asian… Where could she be from?
She may be multiracial, as you suspected, but there are many racial groups that are “brown”. She could have been Hispanic, (which is most probable if she wasn’t multiracial) Central Asian, Middle Eastern, ect…
Also, keep in mind that she is probably used to memorizing names of multiple ethnicities, seeing as she is a teacher in a school with a strong ethnically diverse population.
Matt
2009/02/02