This
week, the city of Córdoba is holding a clothing
drive for less fortunate community members.
On Monday, Rosa, our school’s secretary, came into my fifth grade class
to solicit donations. She explained that
in previous years, every student had been given a plastic bag to bring home for
collecting clothing, but that because of el
crisis a lot of spending cuts had been implemented and we didn’t have
individual bags for the kids.
I must
pause here to state that no matter where I am or who I’m with, el crisis comes up about once a
day. Spain is hurting. Unemployment is abysmal and spending cuts
threaten social programs that have become the norm since the fall of
Franco. Watching all of this from an
American perspective is very surreal, and an entirely separate story.
Anyway,
last month I had taught my fifth graders a until entitled “Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle,” in which we specifically mentioned clothing drives as a method of
reusing resources. When Rosa left the
class, I excitedly asked my kiddos:
“So,
what is our clothing drive an example of?!”
In
unison chorus, they shouted back:
“The
crisis!”
Ah,
the times we live in.
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