“An American Concoction”
October 15, 2021
I was disappointed to be told, on my first day of Spanish class in my freshman year of high school, that my name, Sheryl, was an “American concoction”. My teacher was giving each student the Spanish counterpart to their English name, and when she got to me she was stumped. According to her, my name was an “American concoction”, so she assigned me a random Spanish name for the rest of the year. How disappointing to not be called by my real name,…
