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Archive for 11/10/2009
T25 & T26 - English Classes and Ephesians
11/10/2009 by paul.
Well Friday (T25) was a very quiet day. It was a bit like a day off, with time to sleep, and then I put together some things for an English Class on Saturday (T26). The English class is for teenagers who are studying English at school. I think I’ve already described on my blog how children here are put under pressure to pass exams and often go to evening school to learn more. There is some hope that with the church holding an English class the cycle might be broken. I was therefore determined to make the class fun and interesting, and, I hope, quite different from school. But as I was preparing I had no idea of the level of English of the teenagers who would be coming. So in the first week I decided to go with a vocab quiz, a grammar quiz, watching the trailer to Harry Potter (all the kids here have seen the film) and (don’t laugh, but it was ll I could find online) reading ‘The Wind in the Willows’.
So Saturday night came round and the class went really well. The kids have a really good grasp of Vocab, so next week can be much more difficult (hahaha!) and their grammar is pretty good. Listening and conversation was much harder so I’ve even got something to work at! After the class I went to the young people’s group (20-30’s-ish). They talked about one of the books that they had been reading together. Afterwards I had some good conversations, and they asked me to lead a session in a couple of weeks.
The other thing that I began on Saturday was a translation (Greek -> English) of Ephesians, which, if I’m feeling brave will appear on here at some point.
On Saturday I also went for a nice walk by the Keelung river. To get to the river you need to walk through a 15 ft high metal gate, which protects the city during the monsoon season. I read the notice very carefully to make sure I wasn’t going to get shut on the wrong side of the gate. As you walk along the river I heard random splashing from the middle of the lake. At first I couldn’t see what was causing the noise, but eventually I saw that it was flying fish making their way up stream. I tried to capture one with my camera, but alas my photography skills need more work. Instead I took a picture of the Taipei 101 building which looms above. It looks so impressive here, and yet it is about 2.5 km away!
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