How we met

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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Teaching languages and dancing like bees: Language lecturers Rocio Sanchez Ares (left) and Elliott Stevens started exchanging glances across their offices in Wescoe Hall 10 months ago. Today, they have a plan for building a life together.

Elliott Stevens, lecturer of English, noticed Rocio Sanchez Ares, lecturer of French and Italian, in her office directly across from his. In the depths of Wescoe Hall, he tried to work diligently but he was distracted by the beautiful Spanish woman who he saw almost every day.

 Like a curious neighbor, Sanchez Ares admits that she too caught herself sneaking glances at Stevens.

 Sanchez Ares finally broke the silence with a little yellow cookie she gave to Stevens. “We then talked,” Stevens says. “Or more exactly, she talked and I sputtered at her.” Stevens says he couldn’t believe such a beautiful person like Sanchez Ares was talking to him. After the first yellow cookie, Sanchez Ares continued to leave him homemade wedges of Spanish tortilla and cakes in his office.

 That was 10 months ago when the sparks started to fly. Like every relationship, Sanchez Ares and Stevens had a honeymoon period but for them it seems as though this honeymoon is never ending. With the butterflies refusing to quit fluttering, they plan to spend the rest of their lives together. “We want to get married, have four children, teach many languages to nice people, grow parsley in gardens, and, finally, take care of bees,” Sanchez Ares says.

 Aside from this couple’s giving nature, Stevens says that the bees are symbolic of their relationship. He says that bees are creatures of royalty and fidelity. “They also dance at each other to communicate, which is something that Rocio and I do, too.”

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