The teaching style is very interesting even.

New Post from Kristen!

So as you may know, I've recently taken to teaching English. There are approx 60 students on any given day, most of them male, and it's terrifying. One of my goals is to get the students to interact and actually speak English because I feel like that might be the end goal. Just a guess. My most recent activity was to bring in photographs that I had laying around and ask them to describe what they see. Then they read them aloud to the class. I thought I'd share some of my favorites.

Some clarifications: in some cases they made up names for people. Also, "fat" is generally translated into english as "healthy". As in "you don't look like you're about to waste away". Don't be offended- it's usually a compliment. This week's photos feature, in no particular order: Cheese, Wardo, Matt, Jen, and Will. You may be next.

"From this picture he seems like singing and his hair is very interesting. It seems curl like black but is white. He is ready to say something but there is no sound, means that I can't hear at the moment. His physical appearance isn't show clearly but now I am seeing his face and it is interesting."

"He seems sad. He live a strengthful. He travels on a buggy. He is a very handsome man. He is a very fat man."

"They drink coca and other. Much amount of food in front of them. The are very drunker. Abebe gives his hand and Almaz for feeding. Almaz would like to drink coca cola. Almaz has so nice hair."

"The man is running and climbing the tree and the man is very scared. The man nearly the tree and is having animal on head. The man is focus for a thing."

"He seems like shout and feels frightened. He also swim in the river and some action and feels serious problem. He looks like red and some extent black face. He speaks some words angrily."

17 points if you guess them all right.