Sunday, February 22, 2009

Sorry its been so long! Lots to Report!


Hello my faithful blog followers. Lo siento (I'm sorry) mucho for not updating sooner! I have been busy- so there's lots to report! I finished my TEFL program at Maximo Nivel. My last week in the program I taught a basic English class- meaning my students pretty much knew NO ENGLISH. The first day of class, I asked a student "How are you" and he replied "Yes." So it was a challenging week, but I learned a great deal and I am glad that I got the opportunity to teach a difficult level. We had a lot of fun, and by the end of the week even the weakest student could comfortably speak in full sentences! Wooohooo! Here are some last day of school pictures....explanations follow :)

















A demonstation of "shitgun."[shit-guhn] –verb v. A maneuver popular amongst native Asian youths. It is executed by clasping both hands together with both index fingers extended, sneaking up on an unsuspecting victim (eg. esl teachaĆ” Natalie), and attempting to sodomize said person with the index fingers. sentence: "A little kid tried to shitgun me today and broke both of his index fingers." (this definition comes from Michelle, a very clever gal in my class, though I wish I could take credit for it)















Its amazing how many funny jokes we had in TEFL... of course we put everything on the oh so sacred whiteboard for our teacher on the last day of class. Natalie (teachaa) dancing on the Palmares stage and Ben the Dwarf were my personal artistic contributions.















































This shows the naughty/nice contrast well I think!






























My boyfriend Andy arrived for his visit on Thursday night (Feb 12)- I had a busy day on Friday, but he was very helpful! And Friday night we had the TEFL PARTY! It was at the school, but they turned the snack bar into an open bar, a DJ and had food catered, so it was a blast! And I was glad Andy could be there to share in the celebration!




















Teachaaa Natalie calling us graduates up for our TEFL certificates and the boys- Greg, Ron, Mike, Greg- celebrating with cigars.














Andy and I with Michelle (TEFL student) and Yerlin (Maximo English student)





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