Southern Nash High School - Unitat Yearbook (Bailey, NC)

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French. . . The Language of Love to sleep by. th music WwW 7)

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“Okay children. Let’s wake up. French is the language of love: So...” “So the first year you listen to records. It sounds like a romanticist with harelip.” “So vocabulary words come and go. Exactly. They come for the test and move out to make room for more important things. Like who won the ball game last night. You know, it’s no different from all the rest of the courses.” “So it’s a lot of memory work. That’s really just in the beginning. After a couple of years you begin to think in French and it’s not just words anymore, but a language that | find just as important as English.” “So it goes that French is a love language. That’s just because of French kissing! French is a love language like Spanish is bull. . . .!”” “SO... | pursue French relentlessly, ruth- lessly (wonder where Ruth is) doggedly (ruff! arf! bow wow!). At Fourth and Drucker | turn right. At Drucker and Fourth | turn left. | search MacArthur Park for the art of speaking and run into a great sandstone building (oh my nose) ee Erenchin “Such garble speech!” “Bonsoir and monsieur,”’ “Barnyard manure to you, too!”’ 70 Miss Beasley

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“Don’t throw a pencil in here please.” Senora Chamblee. . . “Yea, you might put out your little ojo.” Merle Hendricks ‘The rooster say ‘ki kiri ki, no?’’ Maria Hoyos ... “You mean roosters talk different in Columbia?” Student ... “No, No, No. We say ki kiri ki. What is English word?’”’. . . “You mean cock-a-doodle-doo! Wow, | was worried there for a minute.” Student “You mean to tell me cucaracha means car and cockroach all in the same word?2”’ Student Maria Mercedes Hoyos came to Southern this’ year from Cali, Columbia. She spent her first months with Larry D. Bass from Momeyer (Carol), and her last months with Braxton Bunn from Stanhope (Harriet). When Maria first arrived, she had only had one year of English. Many times you could hear her say, “Your language - . . very hard- Yes!’’ But after a month at Southern she was remarking, ‘“‘He’s a red neck, No?2” or an oc- casional, “Out of sight!’’ She came to the ‘futbol’ and basketball games and became a real Firebird. She saw her first snow during her stay . . . She admitted her love for all movies and especially Perry Mason. She ‘gets off’ on Santana too (I didn’t know they had Santana records and Perry Mason in Columbia). Yeah, Maria shocked us all. She informed us that Mary Ann Mobley was Miss America in years passed and we marvelled. . . since we didn’t even remember that about our own country. Spanish for her was not as easy a subject as people may think. She read the Spanish with ease of course, but while we (in Spanish Ill) were converting to Spanish, she would trans- late to English. Maria taught us a lot. Her morals are a little different and it was hard to recognize that she was really a normal down to earth chick who, by the way, wants to be a lawyer. Maria Hoyos de Cali, Columbi 72