Extremely proud mom

Today, the world's most perfect teenager received an email from Diplomas of Spanish as a Foreign Language, or DELE. He passed his exam and even though he chose to take the exam at the lowest level, DELE level A1, I am incredibly proud of him. This is Junior's first but hopefully not last Diploma (certificate).

Junior maintained his Spanish throughout grade 10 on his own with 2 hours of self-study per week in the school library with the support of his former Spanish teacher. Neither I nor the world's most perfect husband could help him because neither of us can really speak Spanish.

I studied Spanish in high school but I barely know any Spanish at all because the teacher and I didn't get along. He was a communist and came to classes barefoot in the summers. In retrospect, I wish that instead of skipping the Spanish lessons, I had asked to change teachers.