Thanksgiving and more...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! Hope everyone is enjoying the festivities at home cause we sure are here!

This year at Thanksgiving we had a few special guests with us. Some of our friends came to the feast just like the Native Americans did so many years ago to help people they knew very little of. And a challenge it was for the students who had to participate in activities to test if all their years of English training is paying off, which, to our joy, it has!

After feasting and playing a few games our special guests left, but we continued the festivities with watching "This is America: Charlie Brown, The Mayflower Voyage" and quiz, a Pilgrim simulation, skits, and picitonary.

In the Pilgrim simulation, the students had to hunt (shoot a plastic toy crossbow at paper cut-out birds) and fish (use a magnet fishing rod to catch magnet paper fish) for their food. It was a game of mostly luck but fun none the less.

For the skits the students had to work out a conflict they were given about a foreign looking person in some difficult situation. Basically, we remember all the times we wished someone had helped us in some difficult situation and wrote them down and had the students reinact them. This was prep work for future interactions they will have using English to help foreigners.

We also had a "Thankful Tree" as you can see in the picture below the tree is full of things we are all thankful for including family, friends, good students, good teachers, Jesus, and...rock bands.

Last of all, after the Thanksgiving party we were invited by 2 of our students to join them in watching the newest Harry Potter movie. So we rushed out the door, ran (literally) to the station, took the $1 bus, ran (yes, again) to the cinema to make sure we got our seats. Although we really enjoyed talking and hanging out with our students we were rather dissatisfied by the movie as it didn't line up much with the book...

One more thing, last week at English club we had the students make commericials. Sounds easy yeah, but not with nonsense items such as a squeaky hammer, peace-hand stick, and huge bowtie. We had such a laugh we thought y'all'd enjoy it too! (sorry, you'll have to turn your screen on its side or just turn your head!)