First Grade recently began a study of Mexico. One afternoon this past week we were talking about the symbols in the Mexican flag and what they mean. Then our conversation expanded to the flags of each of my students' countries and the meaning of the symbols on them. When I got to my Indian student, he described the orange, white, and green bands on the flag quite well. Then he declared, "And it has a wheel in the middle!"
Of course, I asked what the meaning of the wheel was just to find out the extent of his knowledge. "The wheel is there so the Canadians will come!" he said with great excitement. "Oh really???" I think to myself. "Yes," he said, "And they will speak Canadian!"
I'm not going to lie, I laughed out loud then. "O__," I said, "Canadians speak English."
"No, they speak Canadian," O___ insisted.
"O___," I said, "I am Canadian. Canadians speak English."
There you have it, if you happen to be in the Canadian portion of my reading audience and you have felt a sudden desire to immigrate to India, you must be responding to the call of the wheel. Make plans to immigrate now. But before you go brush up on your Canadian, eh!
