We became friends when she wasĪ teaching assistant in my ESL class. “But there’s another reason why I love gymnastics. Thing happens and suddenly I have no worries and no Higher and higher, and as I fly through the air, a wonderful I compete in all the events: vault, beam, floor exercise,Īnd my favorite: the uneven bars. The gymnastics team is a fine, good thing in That giving permission for this activity was important for myĮducation.) I can’t find words to say how grateful I was he Ever since I’ve been atīeacon Junior High, the only slip they signed was for the Strange to have parties and events after school when students Special words I could say to get Mama and Papa to sign it.Īround me, everyone in my homeroom was talking excitedlyĪbout the Spring Fling. “I looked at the permission slip, wishing there were some Island in the middle of a great American sea. When Aunt Madina left with him, it broke Mama’s heart.Īunt Madina was the only person we knew from Kazakhstan,Īnd it felt like our family just huddled together on a tiny “Six months after we got here, the Boeing Company moved Teaching jobs, but they had high regard for the food they could Have the respect they were used to from holding government Long after we got here, Papa got a job driving a cab, and Mama Hundredth time, we were running out of things to sell and my When Aunt Madina asked us to come to America for the Sell many of our things: clothes, dishes, even some furniture. Mama lost their teaching jobs because the government was Kazakhstan that she worried all the time about us. Worrying about Aunt Madina, but then things got so bad in He was also fatter than in the picture,īut he was very nice. Madina said Bob was a lot older and had less hair than in the Us a lot from America, and Mama admitted she sounded okay. Mama was afraid for her, but Aunt Madina went toĪmerica anyway and married Mr. “Madina, something must be wrong with this man if he He told Aunt Madina he never had a chance to meet anyoneīecause he traveled so much. His name was Bob Campbell and he’d been in the navy. Had plenty of money for these calls, which Aunt Madina Her, and they would talk on the phone for hours. Sent the photo to one of these magazines, and in a very short Looks more Kazakh with her dark, beautiful Asian eyes.
MAYA MY FAVORITE CHAPERONE TV
Star we saw on TV named Natalie Wood, except Aunt Madina
MAYA MY FAVORITE CHAPERONE MOVIE
Mama says she looks like an old American movie Neck and a red silk band around the neck. Of herself wearing her best outfit, a black dress with a scoop The next thing we knew, she had a beautiful photo taken That’s when Aunt Madina started reading international Was the head of our family, and without her everything fellĪpart. Was cut and the tenge, our money, was worth less and less.
The Soviet Union and things got very hard. Aunt Madina came after Kazakhstan broke away from Magazine looking for dates, just Madina Zhamejakova, myĪunt. I don’t mean that our whole family was in the We came to America through an international dating Maybe I was beginning to think this way, too, It’s a place where things can change for people, and This very popular girl Marcia Egness was handing them out.Īnd even after I took one, I don’t know why I didn’t throw I don’t know why I didn’t just shake my head when Why should I bother when I was sure theĪnswer would be the same? Even though I’m in ninth grade Slip for the Spring Fling, the all-school dance, I almostĭidn’t take one. How do these interactions help you to understand the challenges of being an immigrant in a new country?
SETTING A PURPOSE As you read, pay attention to Maya’s interactions with her family and her friends. States from Kazakhstan, a country in Central Asia that used to Writes about the everyday problems and challenges facedīy teenagers like Maya, the main character in “My FavoriteĬhaperone.” Maya and her family have come to the United Background In addition to being the author of more thanĪ dozen novels for young adults, Jean Davies Okimoto (b.ġ942) is a therapist.
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