Rice students, eighth-graders form a bicultural bond

Spanish students, middle-schoolers talk culture and heritage, en Español

In the sunlit library of Houston’s Pershing Middle School, 38 students lined up last week in pairs at long wooden tables. Half were Pershing eighth-graders enrolled in advanced placement (AP) Spanish; across from them, students from Rice.

“¿Cómo estás?,” they greeted one another, familiar from the beginning. And after a quick icebreaker, the twosomes leaned in and got down to business – a lengthy personal discussion en Español.

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