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Spanish Word For Keyboard

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I search my mind for the Spanish word for “keyboard” as Nancy Mota stares at the screen with squinty eyes while she pushes her wide, wrinkly old lady face close enough to the computer screen that her nose brushes against it. She reminds me of Dora the Explorer's grandmother except that her hair is still dark brown. El teclado! That's the word! I turn to my elderly student and finish my explanation on how pushing the buttons on el teclado makes letters appear on the computer screen. She laughs and gives me another firm, grandmotherly pinch on the inside of my elbow and proclaims she will never be as smart as the “kids these days”. It’s a cold Saturday morning and twenty non-english speaking adults, four volunteers, three toddles, two babies

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