Tienes Suerte

I have already been thinking about this quite a bit since I've been here...the fact that I am lucky to have been born a native speaker of English. But today in one of my fourth grade classes, a pretty little girl said in Spanish with a sad look on her face "you're lucky". I said "why?" She said "because you speak English. All the good movies and tv shows are in English..the whole world wants to speak English." You had to have seen her face though. She looked so sad and frustrated and hopeless. I said "but you're going to learn English too" with a smile. Her posture perked right up and she couldn't help but smile.