Working at Hay el-Ashr with my partner Ruba has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of this trip. We have learned a great deal about ourselves and about teaching others. Three times a week we travel to this site to teach refugees, mainly Sudanese, English. We have built a connection with our students over the past few weeks. Once a week we have an outing with the class. This past week we got pizza and went to a nearby park. The park was perfect for playing games, talking, practicing new vocab, and getting to know each other. Each week our students open up more and more and there's definitely an improvement in the classroom because of this. In the picture above we are at the park, just finishing up our last game.
In this picture we are playing the game "Sparkle". We usually play this game after learning new vocabulary and for reviewing old vocabulary. The students form a line and spell a word in the order that they are standing. If someone misses a letter, they are out of the game. It is an excellent spelling game to play because it works well as an ice-breaker and they pick-up the spelling much faster. We also have them say the meaning of the word in Arabic after successfully spelling the word in the line. Our students get pretty competitive during the game, so it is fun to watch.
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