No, I’m not going to gripe about people not participating in the Mass once again. Rather, I want to share with you some neat auditory experiences that I’ve had while walking through the halls of AI recently.
AI is a pretty small school, and it’s sometimes difficult for small schools to cultivate diversity, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Just last week, I was wandering through the downstairs corridors when my ears were caught off guard by a strange sound. Fr. Jose Santiago was on the telephone in his office speaking Spanish. I thought to myself, “hmm, you don’t hear that around here very often.” Then the next day, I was walking through the Commons, and I heard another strange language. One of our students had spent the previous year volunteering in Haiti, and he was speaking Creole to another student whose family is from Haiti. How exciting! We hear Latin, Greek, and Hebrew thrown around in our classes, but it’s nice to hear some more modern languages being spoken at AI, too. We could probably hear Vietnamese as well as different African and Indian languages and dialects as well. We are truly a microcosm of the Church!
