After finishing my two weeks of turtle project I started my English Teaching project. My English teaching project was at a small temple teaching 3 trainee Buddhist monks. We go there and teach from 8.30 to 10.30 and then we have free time until its time to leave for the orphange at 2.30pm. We had some rules for the temple, naturally we had to have our chests, shoulders and knees covered but we also are not allowed to touch the monks, address them by their names, or sit at the same level as them. So they sit at benches and we sit on chairs, we can not sit on the benches if they are etc. Our oldest monk is 16 years old, then we have a 13 year old, and then an 11 year old. The youngest one has really poor english and struggles a lot but he is also very cute! He has some serious issues sounding out letters and words and he also has a hard time writing, even something as simple as copying out the alphabet. We wonder whether he has some learning difficulties or maybe dyslexia. The middle monk can be impatient and moans a lot, when he finishes his work he will sit and make faces and silly noises instead of just waiting for us to move on as a group. The oldest one is lovely and sweet and has the best english so sometimes helps us explain things to the younger two.
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| Zoe from Ireland teaching |
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