Teachers and Tongues

This week has been beautiful, and has passed far too quickly.

As Wendy wrote about below, Monday was the start of our English classes. We loved getting to meet our kids that morning and adults that evening.

We were able to begin Tuesday with a much better understanding of our students' abilities, needs, and desires for the week of classes. Wendy and I both loved getting to love on the youngest beginner-level kids. Sharon and Jackie rocked at addressing each intermediate student at their level, which proves to be very difficult when your students are on very different levels of understanding. Becky and Haley invited their teenage students into a higher lever of understanding and challenged them with conversation and new vocabulary. We ended the morning classes encouraged and excited, already becoming very attached to our students.
Tuesday afternoon, we drove to the minaret overlooking Diosd. Many of the team were brave enough to climb it and take pictures from the top (I was not one of those brave ones). We then got to see a few sections of the roman road still in place. Becky and Haley, along with Danny and Megan, took on the challenge of the beginning adults. They expressed joy in their interaction, showing their students genuine interest in their lives, and invited questions about life in America and the English language. Matthew, Wendy and I had a great time with our students, discussing statistics reflecting comparisons and differences between life in Hungary and the United States. Jackie, Sharon and Tyler played games and had in-depth discussions with their advanced students, challenging their vocabulary, and teaching them new concepts and idioms.