Language week!

Last week was the language week here at ISK, we had many various activities planned for all the native speakers. Firstly there was the assembly last wednesday which was a lot of fun, we had 3 flash mobs and 3 songs played in 3 different languages (french spanish and swahili). As a native french speaker I was part of the french song dance, all the french speaking students had to dance to the song "Alors on dance" and it was a lot of fun. After that, on the same day there was a really interesting activity. Students were supposed to teach teachers their language. I happily agreed to that with my friend Saba and at first we were a bit nervous as to what is going to happen and how are we going to do this. We had a class of 5 teachers (students) who were Mr. and Mrs. Curry, Mr. Robbins, Ms. Bock and Coach Nixon. I think of all groups we had the most interesting ones because the students we had were like typical high school students; coming in class late, not always focusing, having side conversations etc... Overall we taught them how to greet people, ask their name, and at the end we had some extra time so we taught them a few other things like how to count to 15 and how to ask for a coffee or a beer (their idea). It was a lot of fun, it took them some time to get it right and it was really really intertaining, I thought it was really interesting to be behind the desk and to see what it's like to be a teacher and how it is from their point of view. If I had to do it again I would definitely do it, it was a bit of a challenge to get them to focus and it really helped me to see what teachers experience everyday with language classes and how it is important for us to make it easier for them as it is a tough job.