Yesterday was my English class informational meeting. My 23 year old Dominican friend, Rafalito, and I had advertised my English class to the primary and high schools and the community. I expected about 40 kids to show up. Unexpectedly, 70 students showed up! The ages ranged from 9 years old to 40! The class size is so big that I will be teaching two sections of English each week, in 2 different locations (people walked over 30 minutes to come to the meeting yesterday!). It’s all very exciting. Luckily, my friend Rafalito is currently studying youth social work/education in the university, so he will be helping me teach (and he knows all the kids so it makes things easier!). During the informational meeting we taught the students to say “Hello my name is ______”, the word “soda” and “take it easy”.

I also sat in on an English class at the high school yesterday. I will probably be in the classroom about 2x/week helping teach as well.