Let me tell you a story. This is Susan Lung. She taught me to read and write in a single year when I was 7 years old. I've been looking for Susan, hoping to thank her in person, for almost twenty years. And then she surprised me at my reading last night. pic.twitter.com/7YW2EPx1CO
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
Non classé
I came to the US at 1 and a half years old, but I grew up in a household that only spoke Pashto & Farsi, so when I started kindergarten, I didn't know a word of English. I don't think my teacher knew how to handle an ESL student. He used to punish me for not understanding his
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
directions. We moved a lot in those days as my father searched for work and I went to three diffrent schools in 1 year. I continued to struggled with English. Then, after first grade ended, my family went back to Afghanistan for the summer. I fell in love with Logar, but…
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
But I'd completely forgotten all the English I'd learned in school! I remember on the morning of my first day in 2nd grade, I could only recall 10 letters from the alaphabet. I was was way behind and on track to be left back. But then I had the fortune of meeting Ms. Lung
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
Ms. Lung sat with me almost everysingle day after school, giving me extra lessons in reading and writing so I could catch up with the rest of the class. By the end of the year, I'd learned to read and write, and by third grade, I was winning awards for reading comprehension.
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
After that, my family moved a few times more and I lost track of Ms. Lung. For years afterward, all throughout highschool and college, I tried to find Ms. Lung, to thank her for everything she'd done for me. I searched google and social media. I called my old school and visited
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
The district office. But I kept hitting deadends. The main problem was that I didn't know Ms. Lung's first name! She'd always just been Ms. Lung to me. In my mid 20s, I'd pretty much given up on the search. I figured Ms. Lung had moved on to a new state, a new life. But a few…
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
Cette histoire a commencé il y a 15 ans.
— Le libraire se cache (@librairesecache) December 16, 2022
J'étais encore jeune et fringant et je débutais dans le métier. J'ai croisé une dame qui venait pour son petit-fils qui, je cite, n'était pas très bon à l'école, du haut de ses 10 ans, et était fâché avec les mots
Alors je l'ai conseillée
Et chaque année, pour Noël et son anniversaire, elle me demandait conseil et je notais, petit à petit, l'évolution dans son niveau de lecture et d'implication.
— Le libraire se cache (@librairesecache) December 16, 2022
Ce qui est sûr, c'est qu'il réclamait ces livres. Il ne voulait rien d'autre comme cadeau.
Les années ont passé, façon scène d'ouverture de Là-Haut et il a enchainé, les Bone, les Jules, les De cape et de crocs, avec avidité. Tout ça par procuration (façon Mary & Max)
— Le libraire se cache (@librairesecache) December 16, 2022
-Il passe son bac de Français cette année, il voulait que vous le sachiez, me dit-elle une année
