Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Giving Back

After living in Kumamoto for almost three years it’s about time I gave something back to the community. A fellow ALT has been volunteering at an orphanage downtown but due to family and business commitments he was looking for people to take over. Dawn, Pooja and I volunteered and we are all really excited.

All we have to do is prepare a 40-50 minute English class for a small group of year 6 kids once a week. Tonight was the first night and we all introduced ourselves and got to meet the class. There are only 5 students but they all seem eager to learn and I think we’re going to have fun with them.

The hall where we teach is pretty depressing and I have no idea what British orphanages are like, let alone Japanese ones, but they all seem pretty happy and I can’t wait to see them next week!

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