Oh, don't get me started on Francophone countries -- I bought a bunch of Barbie dolls (stop yer groaning) last time and made them all Francophone -- there was Sophie Lille, from Haiti; Anika and Isabel Makumbe, from Senegal, Gilles and Stéphan Something-I-Can't-Remember, from the Côte d'Ivoire (I think), Claire Arsenault from Québec, Mei Nguyen from Vietnam, and Laurent Martineau from Paris. Then I drew them and made them into paper dolls, and had the students use them all year long to practice dialogues and scenes and so forth. I'll use them this year, I bet.

Haitian and Quebecois just 'cuz they're, like, the equivalent of Canadian and Mexican flags, here in North America; kids are more likely to meet Francophones from there than elsewhere, and it's important that they know this language is used right close to us.

Anyway, I'm happy. I love teaching this stuff. I also think it's terribly important that kids at some point get a language teacher who isn't a native speaker, just to give them proof that it's possible to get good at it.