Short Stories

Our homework for the weekend was to read two short stories, one was called "Why My Mom Can't Speak English" and "Me Talk Pretty One Day". I actually didn't mind reading these, one of the readings really stood out to me though. The reading that stood out to me what the first short story. From this story I found it so weird that his mom lived in Canada for 30 years and never learned the language, or got her citizenship. If I was in her shoes that would have been something I would have done right away, not 30 years later. living somewhere and not knowing how to talk to anybody, but watching my family do it would be REALLY frustrating to me, I'd feel almost stupid.  I couldn't even image what that would be like, I would be so lost. I wouldn't like to have to depend on my husband to take me everywhere and talk/translate for me, I would feel more like a burden, and would hate having to always need him fro EVERYTHING.  The ending of the story was really cute though because she finally got her citizenship and could understand some English, it was bittersweet.