Mis estudiantes. . . y amigos

I have had the best job ever this summer! (Working as a tutor in the Reading Center / English Transitional Center in the library). A couple of my students were American, and we worked on things like textbook comprehension and notetaking. Most of my students, however, were international students, and we spent our time in conversation or working on grammar,spelling, vocabulary, or pronunciation. It was an interesting experience in many ways. For one, because I have heard and spoken English all my life, I've never really had to examine its rules and nuances in structure and pronunciation - so it was a learning experience for me to learn these things in order to teach them. It was also interesting to associate with people from different cultures, something that I've never really had the opportunity to do before. They were all eager to learn and I loved working with ALL of them. They became dear friends. I am going to miss this!
Here are some of my students:

This is In-Yang Hwang, one of my Korean students. He was a riot. Sometimes we would go through his biology or chemistry homework together, but most often we would "practice English" and just talk or discuss articles in the newspaper. He is very outgoing and quite the philosopher - full of ideas.


Here is Dulamsuren (Duka) Vanchin. She is from Mongolia. Her major is accounting, so the homework she brought in to work on wasn't exactly my forte! Together, we would read and try to make sense of the accounting-terminology-convuluted case studies. I love this girl!!



Ousdhane Chadic, from Haiti. Her native language was Creole - how cool is that? She - like all of my international students -worked really hard. She had a beautiful smile and I loved to meet with her.



This is Derrick Nam (from Korea). I'm gonna miss this kid! We spent most of our time learning and practicing new vocabulary and discussing slang (some of which he picked up from his roommates. . . a little iffy. . . ) He was a lot of fun.




This is Yeoun Hee Lee, from Korea - the one who invited me over for a Korean dinner and later taught me to make mandu. She and her husband are so kind. She is expecting a baby in September and she says she'll keep me updated. : )