Thupten Jinpa, who teaches the beginning English class, was away last week (and in Maratika, where he met Jeremy!), so I had an expanded morning class of 25. Continuing with the transportation noun lesson of previous classes, and wanting to give them an opportunity for more drawing, I procured some big paper and wrote this mad lib-type sentence on the board: "I go to ___(place) in a ___(thing)". We played some of our noun games first to reiterate how we classify people, places, and things, and then I unleashed the artistic supplies (thanks again to Becky!). We ended up spending about 2 class periods working on these, and they asked to keep working on them over the holiday.
When I arrived this morning, Thupten Jinpa had returned but was unsure if we could have class today, as they are very busy preparing for Losar (Tibetan New Year). I was excited that we did end up having class, especially because I can now share these photos with you.
I have more photos of their beautiful artwork, but unfortunately they will have to wait until the power comes back on. But here is my favorite picture of this last month, taken just this morning:
Jessica your blog is wonderfull.... I am so glad Becky sent it to me... the pictures of the kids and their artwork are great...I wish I was good with getting pictures online..if I was I would take a pic of the prayer flags Jeremy brought from Nepal I believe, that they gave me for Christmas...they are flying in my backyard on a big wooden swing set...
ReplyDeleteTake care and say hi to him too, love, Susan