Monday, October 11, 2010

Work and a New Home (Oct 11)

Well yesterday after church I went home with my new host family (the one I will be living with for the rest of my time here). The house is nice, its actually sorta two houses, but thankfully I will have internet while Im here though no WiFi, which means I will have to borrow someone elses computer to use. Currently I am at the "Price of Peace" church. They have four computers here. This morning first thing when I arrive at work they tell Karsten, Carlos (Karsten is a hard name so we are changing it), and I that we will be teaching english to children. It freaked me out at little bit initially because I feel very incompetent when it comes to english(classes, I feel comfortable speaking obviously). Though after thinking it over it is only the very basics, like abcs(Spanish keyboards dont let me use apostrophes) and greetings. So the more I think about it the more comfortable I feel.

5 comments:

  1. JD - I think you will make a great teacher. Your gentle caring manner should help you connect with the kids. - Doug

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  2. oh Jdizzle. You will just do great. Are the calling you Joel? Just be sure to play lots of games and draw pictures. That should do the trick. It'll be nice, too, because while you are patient with the kids learning English, they will be patient with you as you learn Spanish. Yeah, I think kids are the best to work with. :) hope you are loving your host family! You should write us about who they are and what they do. just curious!

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  3. JD,
    Songs are great for teaching language. Try this site for a list of all your kindergarten favorites. Can work for bigger kids too, depending on their openness.
    http://www.esl-kids.com/songs/songs.html

    Try the Oxford Children's Picture Dictionary for a textbook, or ESL SMART. Kind of useful. Books are hard to use because you'll have to adapt a lot.

    Good luck!

    -Mitch

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  4. Two weeks without a post- you must be having a good time.

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