Reciprocal Language Partnership

Last night's event was more than just eating tacos. The Reciprocal Language Partnership is a group that gets English speakers together with Spanish speakers who want to learn English and Spanish speakers together with English speakers who want to learn Spanish...get it? Reciprocal. I would not want to characterize the affiliation, but they get the job done. There is a board (Jon is on it) and they actually had a silent auction. The taco bar was a diversion, but at seven o'clock without any supper on a Friday night...whew...they slung some serious tacos.

They had some testimony from users of the program. We think of immagrants coming here and needing to learn English...and there were those for sure, but one English speaker, a public school teacher of Asian desent explained how the program helped her communicate with kids and mainly parents. That was the intent of many teachers sometime in their career...I want to learn more Spanish so I can communicate better with parents...but few actually got very far with the idea (at least in my experience.) Well, RLP lets them do that.

It was a fun evening. I bid on a few things and got a breakfast for dos at Trestlestop. I bid on a couple of other eatouts, but did not get them. I am not sure of the Applebee one...I may have gotten it, but do not know it.