You Are.... I Am....

There have been a lot of "firsts" in these past 3 weeks. Today was my first day tutoring kids in English.  Apparently, I was supposed to have 12 students who all needed the extra help in English since they were behind their peers in the course material.

4 students showed up! hahaha - Also, I was given this teeny tiny classroom to teach in... It kind of looked like Harry Potter's cupboard under the stairs, just filled to the brim with desks and a whiteboard that didn't have any markers (so I had to write the english words I was teaching them down in really big lettering in my journal and hold it up for the kids to see). I tried, to not much avail, to get the students attention: mainly by bouncing around and being smiley and bubbly and talking to them in a mixture of spanish and english. Then I had a brilliant idea though: I told the 4 kids that were privy to my english tutoring that if they paid attention for the next 30 minutes, they would get out 10 minutes early. And hey! It worked! So, today what I taught them was the verb "to be".... I made sure to explain that while in spanish there is "Ser" and "Estar" ... in english there is only one verb meaning "to be".... So, these four kids learned how to say "I am...." and "You are...." I would ask them one by one "What do you do?" and then they would answer me, "I am.... a student/doctor/profession of their choice etc." ... Then I finished the class by asking them, "What do I do?" and they would all repeat "You are a teacher." So...... fruitful? I think sort of. :) We'll see how this progresses. I'm thinking that playing games with them might make them a little bit more excited to come to class, so I told them next Thursday we'll be playing some games, so get pumped! haha

Fun Fact: There is a juice here in Peru called Chicha Morada and it is made with a combination of purple corn juice, cinnamon, and grated pineapple. Quite a combination, no?