Fabulous vocation visit

2009.04.23 Fabulous vocation visit

Woke up in the morning, I can’t believe I am really in America right now!! Look out from the windows, everything was so peaceful. All the view that I’ve seen it’s like the traditional America movie where the story’s background is happen in a small town. This kind of country side view is only show up in the east or south of Taiwan. People create this kind of environment for people who wanna to take a rest, have a holiday trip… something like that. But in here, this is life!!! J I can only say: WOW~
George drove six hours to come having lunch with us. It was at a very America style restaurant where provide very America style food such as popcorn, fried food, large salad, large drink. When I say “large”, it’s really large!! Much more than we have in Taiwan, I can’t finish all of that. Sorry for the delicious food. :(

After lunch, my kind host has arranged an appointment for me. So it was very honor for me to visit the Adult Learning Center which is the public school provide education for adult. The class I attend today was for the adult whom speak English as a second language. The teacher is Marsha and she has been teaching for 20 years.

I joined the class and be one of the students. There is big difference teaching way with Taiwan, but it what our school has been working on. Have more activities to let the students do the practice as much as they could. Always asking questions and let the students think of the answer. In old way of teaching in Taiwan, we used to give students answer instead of helping them find the answer by their own. The purpose is different around here. They don’t care about scores very much, but do care about what they really learn from the class. Taiwan is changing right now, but slow changing. It’s a long way to go.

The school provide teacher very good material for teaching. There is an electric white board called “The smart board.” Basically it’s an electric board connect with computer. The function is the same with the computer. You can easy to get any result from the disk, and show it right away. Teacher save lots of time, don’t need to do most of the props for the class. Have more time to prepare lessons or helping student. And there is another machine called “Documentary camera.” You can show any original material under the camera and no need to retype it or copy. We have similar machine like that but not quiet convenience as this. So kind of Marsha to having me in her class and spend her time with me. I found out even the students are adult, they still make mistakes on learning, I guess I am not suppose to push my student so hard. Haha… I’ll try. :)

And you know the local TV station- KXMC sent the reporter here and interviewed me. I will be on the TV news on Saturday!! I think I can get the video from internet. WE’LL SEE!!
At dinner we’ve invited to have dinner with district government at Holiday Inn. We meet a lot of people and they all gave us warm welcome. And we just see our booth and fix it a little bit. It’s a wonderful day to have spent time with these guys. Oh, by the way, I tried the Diet coke with cheer fever today. It’s taste good! I like it! :)