Our host is a
high school art teacher who recently opened a language center (where John will
work). His heart is for people from his
community to understand other cultures to then enhance relationships and development
within their own community. His center
currently offers English courses and TOEFL prep courses. A English conversation class currently meets
three time per week. The majority of the
students are nurses or midwives within the community. Our host invited John to the Thursday class,
but John suggested I go instead since I previously worked as a nurse. I had a language session from 2-4pm on
Thursday, then was planning to stay to be a guest at the 4pm English
conversation class. It was never
discussed as to what I would be doing during the class, but I assumed at least
speaking in English. Prior to the end of
my language session, John called to inform me our host was not coming to the
class and I was THE teacher. 5 minutes
prior to class our host stopped by to briefly explain what he had planned for
the session.
At 4:15 2
people, out of 9, had arrived for the 4pm class. One of which was a visitor interested in the
class. Finally at 4:30 I started class
with two students. Over the next HOUR, 5
other students trickled in. I spent the
majority of the time doing a Q&A session.
Then we discussed characteristics of local names versus names in the
States. It turned out to be a lot of
fun, though next time I would prefer to plan for the 1 ½ hour
session.
