ESL students send cards over to soldiers
| Degoberto Dominguez looked at the chalkboard and carefully copied the Christmas message as a letter. Then he started all over again. Dominguez’s letters and those of other adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students are on their way to Iraq for American military personnel to receive before Christmas. He arrived from Mexico about 15 months and has realized the importance of learning the English language. Less than a month ago, Dominguez enrolled in the ESL class at South Aiken High School, which meets Tuesday and Thursday nights and is taught by Joan O’Briant, a retired Spanish teacher, and her assistant Muriel Fitzgibbon. |  |
ESL students Ericka Cordejo, Alyssa Aceveda and Roland Kasper have a much better command of English. Cordejo came to the United States 16 years ago and lived mostly in New York before coming to Aiken three months ago. She wants to practice English and learn to write it better so she can help her three children, who are in the public schools, with their homework. Switzerland native Kasper has studied English since childhood, as it is compulsory in Swiss schools. He arrived in Aiken three months ago to begin an executive position with Rieters Automotive. “I think as long as I have no regular training, I would make no progress,” Kasper said. “I am happy to write these letters to the soldiers. I have heard some have no relatives.”
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