lest you think all we do in nyc is eat (considering my last three posts were about food), i thought i would give you an idea of our days here. our team is partnering with astoria community church (a site of queens presbyterian church). the first two weeks, we spent our mornings in the community of astoria meeting people, observing the community, assessing the needs, and advertising, planning and teaching an ESL course. we loved the students who came to our class - from mexico, bangledesh, and korea. while not professionally trained ESL teachers, Greg and I enjoyed teaching the intermediate class together and I realized how helpful my job training (SAT tutoring) in helping me know the grammar rules and how to teach it! our students were wonderful, our team made incredible conversation partners, and we pulled it off somehow! our last day, we had a party where we had asked our students to bring food from their culture and explain it to us in English. it was delicious and so fun to see them excited to share their culture with us!
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| jude doing his part and keeping us in line. |
In the afternoons, we are in class - learning a breadth of things about culture, raising kids overseas, contextualization, etc etc. jude is in the childcare all afternoon while we're in class - the childcare interns are amazing and really love our kids well - the only challenge is getting jude to nap in the "sleeping room" with other toddlers! i thought he was flexible before....but he's going to be a whole new little man when we leave here!
this week, we are in class all day from 9-5pm doing language acquisition study (more of a practical linguistics study of learning a new language). Next week, we'll go back to the ministry/class schedule. i'll share some of the things i'm learning as we go along in case you are interested.
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