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| Theo sang with volunteers at the talent show | |
Our team of volunteer teachers and translators had a great experience at Anlong No. 1 High School in Guizhou Province this summer. We were welcomed like movie stars with flowers and lines of clapping students at the entrance gate. Theo, the young red-headed son of our music teacher, was especially celebrated with pictures and requests for autographs.
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| I taught students to do an act of kindness daily. |
Our six key teachers where assisted by seven translators and other volunteers. We taught the regular English classes in the morning for three days and taught the teachers in the afternoons. The last two days we had our own Blessing Hands students in a relaxed fun curriculum.
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| Maria Franzini, Hong Lin, and Celina Luo tried on traditional Buyi jackets. | |
Anlong is a minority area and most of our students there are from the Buyi minority. We got to visit the Buyi hometown of Yaya Luo, our China part time administrator. Yaya was welcomed back to her old high school as a returning hero. She was one of the first Buyi girls in that area to finish college. Now all the girls have raised their expectations to follow her.
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| We taught the regular English classes. |
It was a treat for the students to have real native English speakers teaching their English classes. In Chinese schools, the teachers change classes instead of the students, so they pile up their books on their personal desks. The 50+ students never meet other students since their class moves through the three years of high school in the same room. I sometimes used a microphone to be heard. Each class had a PowerPoint display and blackboard.
We had a fantastic month long trip to China. We will share more we did in later emails.
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