The above fascinated looking kids are my students at the orphanage center. We had a couple of minutes to burn before our class time ended, so I decided to take out my Cowon P5 and play the World News Webcast podcast. They never have seen an English news video before, so it was a great experience to them.

Unfortunately, some of my students are still struggling to remember and recognize the ABCs (Capitalized and lower case, which are actually a lot of letters), and all of them probably did not understand a word what Charles Gibson was reporting. Nevertheless, they loved watching the news, because they got to see President Obama in video form (I guess these third graders don’t watch the news at all).

Teaching English has been a rewarding opportunity, but there have been some hiccups. I had to punish two students today for continuous disruption and made one of them almost cry. Still, I love all of my students and hope they can use my English lessons to do well in school when their term starts.