Learning Teaching

Today, we began learning how to teach. For the next four days, we will be specifically working on our Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Certificate. To some degree, I feel like we’re finally being trained in what we came here to do. And it’s refreshing. I haven’t been in the classroom as a learner for a while, but today I realized that we, as human beings, are never going to stop learning. There’s so much that we don’t know. Hendricks puts it this way: “If you stop growing today, you stop teaching tomorrow.”

I think that Russell has felt a little overwhelmed by it all, but he is learning how to teach wonderfully. There’s just so much information to absorb, that I hope we remember it all. It’s very exciting learning new techniques and activities to implement in the classroom. It doesn’t make it less intimidating, though.

Tonight for dinner, we had pizza. It wasn’t Pizza Hut or Papa John’s, but at least it was somewhat normal. We went to a little grocery store type place that had international foods, such as M & M’s, which we purchased, and also a little restaurant that had Vietnamese style American food. We went with our new friend Adrienne. She’s from Pennsylvania and she’s hilarious and has been in Vietnam for the past nine years. I really like being around her. She’s a bundle of laughs.

Well, until we meet again....

Bethany