The non-profit organization People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos has received a $288,000 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities that will allow them to expand to 24 libraries in 14 states. You can read the Princeton Packet article about this grant here.
Ms. Hirschman recalled how early in the program the group of Latino senior citizens and teenagers struggled to coalesce — the elderly residents seemed to always criticize the teenagers on their attire or poor church attendance and the teens withdrew into their shells.
But by the third session a story by the Mexican author Juan Rulfo prompted a breakthrough. The story contained a word that had different meanings in different Spanish dialects — prostitute, bread and snob, Ms. Hirschman said. “All of a sudden they were laughing and the teenagers started to open up and talk about how difficult it is to be an American high school student,” Ms. Hirschman said.
What was the word?
A Spanish word that means ‘bread’, ‘snob’ and ‘prostitute’… I’m really curious about what word it is!