We don't have an 'out with the old' to go with the title of this, but we do have lots of new to be excited about! A few days ago, we had a new long-term worker come to join us here! He is Chinese-American, so he speaks both English and Cantonese as a native speaker! It's exciting to be able to have him join us here, as it will help us in multiple aspects of our work. It will help us with our English teaching, because he can teach beginner classes. It will help with our church, because our target group is Cantonese-speaking. Most of us teachers are studying Mandarin, which is quite helpful. But having someone full-time who speaks Cantonese is a huge asset to our ministry!
Speaking of studying Mandarin--I e-mailed a local language center, and I was able to hear back from them. I am looking at starting a new one-on-one class! I am very excited for this, as it will help me communicate in Chinese with my friends and the people I come in contact with every day. I have been a little overwhelmed recently with the fact that my Mandarin is not improving, so it will be nice to be able to have an improvement finally after a long time without.
Last week I changed our bulletin board. It was a beautiful Christmas tree, but now it is a compilation of New Year's traditions. I left out USA and Chinese traditions, as we cover those all the time. I instead found some interesting world facts about New Year's traditions, and was able to create a true/false game out of it.
I don't have much else that is very new now. I am currently waiting for one of my students to show up...that will be in about 25 minutes or so...so I guess it's time to go off and make sure I have everything copied and ready to go! :)
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