Dona Auza

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives Volume 7 Article 11 Dona Auza Alex Godinez Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/courageouscuentos Part of the Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Chicana/o Studies Commons, Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Community-Based Learning Commons, Creative Writing Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence Commons, Educational Sociology Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, History Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Latin American Languages and Societies Commons, Latina/o Studies Commons, Modern Literature Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Reading and Language Commons, and the Theory, Knowledge and Science Commons Recommended Citation Godinez, Alex () "Dona Auza," CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives: Vol. 7, Article 11. Available at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/courageouscuentos/vol7/iss1/11 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License © 2016 Department of Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies (CRGS) at Humboldt State University. This Counternarratives and Reflections is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt. It has been accepted for inclusion in CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt. For more information, please contact . Courageous Cuentos Doña Auza By Alex Godinez My school is mainly a white except for my Spanish class. I remember coming into class for the first time and seeing people my color. Before this class I felt really bad, I felt as if I was less than the kids. All these white kids would look at me like they’ve never seen a brown person before. My teacher Ms. Auza is super sweet. She’s so accepting and kind. She doesn’t know this, but she is my favorite teacher. She’s my favorite teacher because she’s funny and actually cares about us. On my first day here, I remember not feeling my best because of all of the dirty looks by all the white kids but once I got to 4th, I felt kind of relieved to see some of my friends. 15  (...truncated)