Whew! We are finally done with the teacher conference. It really wasn’t hard (all the work was done for us), but it’s nice to have it off our plate. Apparently the first two days we were in country filling out tons of papers, they slipped in a question about what we would like to teach. It turns out that I wanted to teach pronunciation. So anyway, Liz and I did a great job considering how much we worked on it (minimally) and practiced it (none). We worked really well as a team and got our point across. Mission Accomplished.
Other groups presented grammar, vocabulary and Lesson Plan topics. All presentations were in English and called for a bit of audience participation. Some teachers here have good comprehension and speaking skills, but then there are others that looked completely lost. Hopefully they at least got something from the artistically drawn posters that so many groups had. Peace Corps had invited around 60 teachers and a bit more than half participated. I’m pretty sure the main draw was Tip-Top, the Bojangles/Church’s/Popeye’s like place that catered the fried chicken, roll, and soda.
Oh yeah... I forgot to mention these guys. In the middle of a presentation I went to use the restroom and encountered this bunch. They kindly stopped to pose for the pic. Gotta love culture!
