Friday, November 21, 2008

Work- we finally have some!

As for work, thus far, we have only been training with Juana but Thursday we did our first shadowing with other teachers who work for the agency with whom we are going to be working. The class was at 6:30 am! before the work day which starts at 8 so it makes for quite a long day for the students. Linnea went to an elementary class and I went to the next level up because using her Spanish, Linnea will be able to teach the most elementary students, which would be much more difficult for me. The teacher that Linnea was with is from Canada and Linnea said she did a pretty good job. The teacher that I was with is Colombian and he speaks great English but the class wasn't quite as good. Although, its kind of hard to judge because he was filling in for another teacher who is out sick but it was still pretty bad. I'm sure that we can do a much better job! Previously we had only seen personal classes but these classes were for groups so that was fun. We are both excited to start teaching because we think it will be a blast.

Tomorrow we are working at a full day English immersion and we are going to get paid for the first time!!!!! So we are excited to see how that is going to go and see how reasonable it would be for us to host our own immersion since it would have a very low overhead cost and potential for some pretty significant income for only a day's work. That's all for now, we'll let you know how the immersion goes tomorrow :)

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