I'm Still River

I started teaching the simple present tense of verbs yesterday to my evening class. They seemed pretty receptive, but I need to remember that they are new to every word I teach them, and I can't take it too quickly with them. Nothing to worry about though. The thing that has helped me most is setting clear objective when writing my lesson plan. This brings clear purposes to my classes. Like I want to have them familiar with X today, or introduce vocab X-Z; then the next day make sure they are competent in conjugating only X,Y & Z verbs. Overall it has been rewarding to see myself grow into this leadership role. Growing into this leadership role has so far been very rewarding, and I look forward to the rest of the summer. This has been a new experience for me, but despite the the work everyday, has been a lot of fun.

Last night Orlin and his Boca friends don Vidal and Elling were waiting for me after class. They wanted me to help them write a letter from the Tocoa Boca Club to the Argentine Boca Club. After writing a couple of drafts explaining the history of their club, we went to Orln's brother Marvin's house. Marvin has a degree in education, and is also a good writer. We wrote the first draft that will be emailed/ mailed to Buenos Aires in the coming weeks. But to get recognition for the Tocoa Bocas Marvin thought the only way to really show them what Tocoa Boca is about is to create an official website for their club. So they asked me to create that for them, while I am here. I am really excited to do that, not only because I got done with the 4th course in the Education technology certification at UMD, but also because I bought the ADOBE software to do so before I came to Honduras. Making them a website will be my side project for the summer, when I'm not teaching. I'll keep you up to date on its progress as it develops.

I never thought I would be writing a letter to Boca Juniors!