At the public elementary school where I work there are three “Auxiliares de conversación”, language assistants, like me- two american girls and one scottish guy.  Because there are so few boy teachers in our school and because Luke, the Scot, is a pretty cool guy, the kids are obsessed.  As he walks through the halls the “luke luke luke (imagine the u as an oooo)” chant dominates.  Last week, I looked at one of the third grade students, Daniel Diez, I´ve had since he was in second grade.  I said to him (in English), “what about me? what about teacher carolyn?” and he said (in English) “Luke is a boy and he is more interesting and more colorful”  Seeing that teacher Carolyn was not so thrilled with this answer Daniel Diez made sure to mend the damage he had done…About 10 minutes later he and I crossed paths in the hall and when I gave him the “that hurt” face, he said to me “Luke is more interesting but you are more beautiful” and he ran away.  Even though this was out of the mouth of an eight year old boy the combo of that it is his second language, my students are finally learning to SPEAK english and not just understand it, and that my student thinks I´m beautiful made that a freakin fantastic interchange.  So, bilingual education in Spain just ain´t that bad after all…