Remembering our roots

Well as some of you may know, I am a quarter Puerto Rican. So that makes Hannah about an eighth. Well it is still something we have told her she is and she will one day truly understand what that means. But she tells people she is Puerto Rican, so as it happens, her school is having a month where they learn about other cultures and countries, and asked if I would come in and share on Puerto Rico since I am Puerto Rican. I laughed at first, wondering how they knew my background..forgetting Hannah tells people this, and said yes with the understanding that I didn't know much. So in the past week I have had fun looking up things about Puerto Rico since as most of you know, I was not raised with any of the Puerto Rican customs, heck Hannah knows more spanish than I do!!(great thing about having bilingual teachers!) Hannah has had fun looking up things with me and learning that it is an island and what that means, and her favorite part was the neat frog that is a mascot for Puerto Rico.. the Coqui. I shared with her class just a few things like the frog and its beautiful rain forests, which was funny given it was raining outside at the time I shared, and one kid said like here!!! Not quite!! I brought in a real plantain and a banana to compare with the kids and they tried plantain chips, which really just taste like potato chips! It was a fun morning and hit home that we should not forget our roots, I know Hannah learned a little today and one day we will take a family vacation there!!!