Teaching English

Today I will finish three weeks of teaching English at Wichanzoa Church. It has been an adventure so far. I teach two classes a day of kids from ages 5 to 12. We have learned the alphabet, numbers, all sorts of ways to say hello and good-bye. My all time favorite thing is hearing my kids say "Whats upe?" and "What ees yur neem?" It's pretty darn cute. We have also learned the verbs to be and to have, and we've learned to use them for all kinds of things. One of the kids favorite things to is run around the garden saying "I'm running! I'm running! I'm running!" So cute. Until I can't get them to sit back down in the classroom.

Here are a few pictures of some of my students.

Having class in the garden

My older students

Between four interns, we all teach about 40-50 students a week. We have a couple of adult classes, but most of our students are kids. In the afternoons, the church is full of kids. Even when they don't have class they come early and stay late. They come to hang out in the library or play volley ball or just run around screaming. They come to just hang out with the Americans. At the end of every day one little boy named Alex, who is five and doesn't come to English class at all, yells out at us as we are leaving, "A la tres? En la manana?" (Three o'clock? Tomorrow?) It's the sweetest thing.

I am so happy to get to spend time with these precious kids.