Today marked yet another milestone as a very brave student of mine, Ashante, asked me in front of the entire class (and Todd who happened to be observing) if I was pregnant.  I was so caught off guard that my response was “no sé” (I don’t know) and I turned a certain shade of red.  I do talk carefully about my personal life and Bill in class, but did not think it was the right time to announce the ‘news’ to my students.  This same class has been curious for about two weeks now – last week a different student raised her hand and asked, completely out of the blue, how you say ‘pregnant’ in Spanish.  While she had no intentions with this question the rest of the class found it hilarious and started whispering and laughing.

This raises an interesting question:  Do I tell my students?  If so, when?  My guess is that most students would never even dream of asking.  I remember when Amy (French teacher) was 8 months pregnant they thought that she was just ‘getting fat’.  Either way they certainly are curious…