Teaching English is not very difficult. I speak therefore I can somewhat teach. I have now become pretty busy with tutoring. I have an English class of 5 kindergarteners, 2 middle-school boys, 1 older woman, 1 college student, and probably 1 elementary school girl. These people impress me so much with the fact that they are so dedicated to learning another language. For the most part teaching them vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation, and just improving their conversation skills has been great. This Sunday night while talking with Tom and Jerry…I hit a bump in the road! “Mrs. Major’s what is a restroom?” “ I explained its where the toilet is. “AHHHWWWAAAA!!!, you rest on the toilet?!?” Then total laughter filled the room! It was going to take awhile before they regained their composer. Haha English does not make sense sometimes, not even to me. But it certainly is fun to see how people react to some of our cultural and language obscurities!
Surrounded by sounds of horns, buses, and loud Chinese while walking down a crowded street can seem so foreign and a somewhat out of body experience. As we were walking down a shopping street trying to find our way, to my utter disbelief, I heard Backstreet Boys! Yes, I did stay and listen to the whole song, and it was wonderful! It is funny the things that remind you of home, the thing’s that make your heart smile when you live here. I would never think that hearing “Baby, baby ..ooohhh” by Justin Bieber would be a heart warming experience, but sadly because he speaks English and is totally American, I now have bieber fever! I have really enjoyed hearing some older, not so popular, pop songs and was not expecting to hear what I heard one day shopping for rugs. It was as if the Father was talking directly to me. It was a praise song in English! They had no clue what it was, but to me it was a reminder that He is with me…. anywhere I go! I was praising Him in English in a rug store! ...
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