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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

English Corner: Welcoming Students

Today was the Welcome Party at English Corner for the native students and us, I guess. I got there a little early with the other American students and we attempted to help as much as we could but it got crowded fast. At the beginning Peter and Donovan spoke (the founder of the Corner and a English professor that has been super helpful). Then we got to introduce ourselves.



Jordan was called first and he was really nervous. I think he did a very good job though, then Blake. Blake was very confident and had everyone in smiles. I knew he of all people would draw my name XD. There's a picture of me pointing at my X-Men shirt saying I like comics. Then it was time for food. It was a mix of snacks and pizza, but good.

All of the students were so excited and energetic espacially Joy and Cathy who were the hosts. Blake and Kaitlin taught students the Cupid Shuffle and the Wobble (Donovan got in on the wobble lol). I sat and talked with some of my students and met some new people. Roland (a native tutor) ran a bingo game, it was really hard to get everyone's attention for that. He was worried it went badly, but once it got started everyone was screaming and laughing when they won and were having a great time. I think he did a fine job, large crowds are always hard to deal with.


 
I had a few students for actual tutoring after the party. I didn't realize that three of them were part of the fortune-telling club on campus (two of them are usually pretty quiet, I was really glad to have sort of a one on one with them today). They were pretty excited to discuss it with me. One of them has a mermaid tarot deck! I can't wait to see it. I talked about my Aunt Cheryl  and my grandma Pauline a little today. I am so doing a history of tarot for one day.