Diversity at its best

1: I arrived to the last class of the day, a 5th grade English class, and one of the girls was crying. The teacher asked her what had happened and she explained that another girl in the class had picked on her. I'm not exactly sure what was said between the two, but she had picked on the girl who was crying because of her looks. The girl who was crying was from Ecuador and more indigenous looking than the blond, curly haired white girl who had done the taunting. Spain (and Europe in general) is WAY more racist than I had anticipated, and definitely more racists than the US as a whole. Knowing this I wasn't sure what the teacher was going to do. Fortunately the teacher immediately stopped class and went to the front, and explained how we are all different and every single one of us has faults, and how no one is better than anyone else. He continued, and when he finished the girl who did the taunting had to apologize and has to sit at her desk while the rest of the kids have recess for the rest of the week. A few minutes later the girl who was taunted stopped crying and eventually got back involved in the class, and luckily the storm had passed. I hope she and everyone else in the class take to heart what the professor said and learn from it, after all, school isn't just about learning the subjects, it's about learning how to be a better person.

2: For dinner it was me, my roommate from the Canary Islands, and two of his classmates- another guy from Spain, and a guy from China. It was a very international dinner! My roommate told me we were going to have papas arrugadas (from the Canaries/Cuba) and "Chinese food". Of course I was excited to have authentic Chinese food, who wouldn't be?! So my roommate went about making papas arrugadas and after he was done with some of the pans the Chinese guy (who's name is apparently Luis in Spanish) got out his bag to make Chinese food. He pulled out 3 packs of ramen noodles. I about died laughing! Of course they were authentic, he had brought them from China and they were a Chinese brand, not ramen, but they were in fact ramen noodles. Anyways it was hilarious, made my night, and now everyone can say that yes, in fact, ramen noodles are authentic Chinese food!