Meet My Telugu Speaking Friends!

Yes, I have definitely mentioned my new best friends to you about a month ago, but you never got to see what they look like!!!

So the usual members of our class are the following: Lokesh, Sai Kanakavali, Sri Lakshmi, Ramesh, Shentos, Amrutha, Arvin, Teza, Mounica, Lavenna, and Womsi. 

Three or so kids visit our class from time to time, but they're not there to learn English... They seem to be amused by our presence! haha

So Krupa, the mother of Lokesh and Amrutha, tried to take a group picture for us and here it is:

This is Lokesh, Amrutha, and Ramesh

Aren't they adorable?!?!

That's Mounica in the back with her funny face :)

Amrutha: India's Next Top Model!

Womsi is the baby of our class.

Sri Lakshmi looks good in orange =)

This is Lokesh's book - he wrote my real name down and next to it, he wrote so young to remember how to pronounce it! Ahh these kids are so adorable!

Many people ask me about what we teach - Brooke teaches 7th standard (Lokesh, Ramesh, Mounica, and Shentos) and I teach the 3rd standard (Lavenna, Sri Lakshmi, Sai Kanakavali, Amrutha, Teza, and Arvin)

Brooke's kids get homework from school but my kids don't have "official homework."

Based on my experience as an international student, I've decided that the best way for these kids to learn English is to use hands-on activities, like games and skits.

I used to go to small English classes in Korea in which English was taught by cooking and playing games like Monopoly and twister.

This is certainly a different experience for me, for these telugu speaking kids and I have no language in common.

I've taught Korean kids English over the summer, but we had a language in common. It was much easier to get points across, or in other words, simply to teach.

Starting next week, I'll also be teaching at St. Joseph's, a Catholic all-girls' school near the slum that we go to.

Since St. Joseph's is a Telugu medium school, we will face the language barrier but I'm sure that we'll utilize some Telugu words that we've learned.

Stay tuned for more~

Namaste,

SeoYeun