Today we were thrown into the classrooms for some English
teaching/review with the students. It was quite the surprise for everyone, not
having much preparation, and definitely a challenging first day. The students
here are not quite like students back home, so we all had a reality check of
our (bad grammar) expectations. However, the English teacher is very attentive to
us and wants us to succeed as much as possible, so we left the worksite with
English books in hand and some classroom preparation to do for homework!
It looks like we will be working in the classroom for an
extended time of two periods per day to help the students with their English
and give them the chance to talk to, to put it frankly, us white people. All
the students are very quiet (for now) and are incredibly respectful, staying on
their feet until you tell them to sit down, everyone hesitant to offer answers
at first. And all the girls stay almost silent the whole time. Hopefully
working with everyone for the week will make it easier for everyone to
communicate and get used to each other, so we can learn from them just as
effectively they can learn from us.
We spent part of the afternoon at the scarf-making set up
in the CP office, choosing fabrics for some custom scarves the mothers will
make for us. Dhanyabad as always! We had lunch at a super local place in
Godhawa (I think that's how you spell it), the village that the school is just
outside of. It was delicious, as most food is, listening to Al Jazeera news and
thinking about the lack of world news on our Canadian networks.
We are excited to return to the classroom tomorrow and
see what progress and what changes will happen over this next week!
DWC Student Team
Nepal, May 2013
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