Elsa M.
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The article from Hola:
http://www.hola.com/abonados/casasreales/2006/05/03/elena-colegio3/
"Elena, Elena"! The children receive their English teacher with all spontaneity. At this age, it would be very difficult to understand that their teacher is an Infanta of Spain. "Doña Elena, Doña Elena...!" corrects one of the other teachers. But the little children, who don’t understand the need of treatments nor distinctions, come again with "Elena", so to call her attention and help them with the cords of their shoes. The children want her for how she behaves with them and for what she is, and the Infanta is the happiest of the teachers, unremarkable among the teaching staff, while wearing the school uniform.
From Monday through Friday, and except for exceptional official commitments, the Duchess of Lugo goes to work in this school; one of those places in the world, where Doña Elena feels really comfortable and free. Possibly, one of the very few, where anybody cares about how she moves, what she says or what she wears. She’s a teacher who likes to be close to her students, who looks after the class, while they sleep their siesta and, of course, which puts all her persistence and commitment, at the time of fulfilling the leading sentence of the her school: customized attention and innovation.
At school, there is a good atmosphere. The seventeen women of the staff inspire confidence; they are all equal, once they cross the door entrance. It’s a cosy and cheerful school, where the infantile decoration has been cared with all detail. As teacher, the Infanta, like any other woman from the 21st century, is also comprised with the task of fulfilling her role as wife, mother, Infanta and teacher.
The vocation that she reassumed after returning from New York (where Jaime de Marichalar treated his cerebral infract in 2002) has always been present in her life, since she was very oung, but today it contributes to give her a full sense to her life. The Infanta is now in her forty-three years old, but she is still the first member of the Royal Family to quote for the Social Security, for a remunerated activity.
And today Doña Elena feels the same illusion of that teacher who began teaching at twenty-three, at the same school she attended as a student.
A very special day
Doña Elena, in her role of teacher, wanted to share with her students a special little while for them. The eldest daughter of the Kings accompanied "her children" to the exhibition "Faraón", at the Exhibitions Centre Canal de Isabel II, in Madrid. Doña Elena and her students had the opportunity to contemplate the 120 pieces coming from the CairoMuseum, as well as the projection of the film “Momia: viaje interior”, directed by the BritishMuseum.
Along with other colleagues, the Infanta enjoyed with the little children the most exciting moments. In fact, she wanted to immortalize the day with her digital camera. The scene remembered her mother, the Queen, who always takes a camera at special moments.
After the exhibition and already in the bus, Doña Elena waited until all her students got in the bus and finally took her seat at the side of one of the children. While speaking on the phone, the Infanta amusingly observed her companion, who was delighted, watching one of books of the exhibition.
There is no better example of her complicity with her students, who see her like more like a teacher than an Infanta of Spain.
http://www.hola.com/abonados/casasreales/2006/05/03/elena-colegio3/
"Elena, Elena"! The children receive their English teacher with all spontaneity. At this age, it would be very difficult to understand that their teacher is an Infanta of Spain. "Doña Elena, Doña Elena...!" corrects one of the other teachers. But the little children, who don’t understand the need of treatments nor distinctions, come again with "Elena", so to call her attention and help them with the cords of their shoes. The children want her for how she behaves with them and for what she is, and the Infanta is the happiest of the teachers, unremarkable among the teaching staff, while wearing the school uniform.
From Monday through Friday, and except for exceptional official commitments, the Duchess of Lugo goes to work in this school; one of those places in the world, where Doña Elena feels really comfortable and free. Possibly, one of the very few, where anybody cares about how she moves, what she says or what she wears. She’s a teacher who likes to be close to her students, who looks after the class, while they sleep their siesta and, of course, which puts all her persistence and commitment, at the time of fulfilling the leading sentence of the her school: customized attention and innovation.
At school, there is a good atmosphere. The seventeen women of the staff inspire confidence; they are all equal, once they cross the door entrance. It’s a cosy and cheerful school, where the infantile decoration has been cared with all detail. As teacher, the Infanta, like any other woman from the 21st century, is also comprised with the task of fulfilling her role as wife, mother, Infanta and teacher.
The vocation that she reassumed after returning from New York (where Jaime de Marichalar treated his cerebral infract in 2002) has always been present in her life, since she was very oung, but today it contributes to give her a full sense to her life. The Infanta is now in her forty-three years old, but she is still the first member of the Royal Family to quote for the Social Security, for a remunerated activity.
And today Doña Elena feels the same illusion of that teacher who began teaching at twenty-three, at the same school she attended as a student.
A very special day
Doña Elena, in her role of teacher, wanted to share with her students a special little while for them. The eldest daughter of the Kings accompanied "her children" to the exhibition "Faraón", at the Exhibitions Centre Canal de Isabel II, in Madrid. Doña Elena and her students had the opportunity to contemplate the 120 pieces coming from the CairoMuseum, as well as the projection of the film “Momia: viaje interior”, directed by the BritishMuseum.
Along with other colleagues, the Infanta enjoyed with the little children the most exciting moments. In fact, she wanted to immortalize the day with her digital camera. The scene remembered her mother, the Queen, who always takes a camera at special moments.
After the exhibition and already in the bus, Doña Elena waited until all her students got in the bus and finally took her seat at the side of one of the children. While speaking on the phone, the Infanta amusingly observed her companion, who was delighted, watching one of books of the exhibition.
There is no better example of her complicity with her students, who see her like more like a teacher than an Infanta of Spain.
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