teaching english to tolucans

Remember how I was volunteering at the UNT LTC Summer Institute? Well, I have pictures, including a few from when we got to hang out with a special guest lecturer, Sita from India!







This was a really great experience for me, I am so fired up to start grad school next month (of course, I'm sure that I will change my tune the second I get my first homework assignment.)

P.S. This is my 200th post! Is that a thing? I feel like it's a thing.

"we are mexicans!! we are humans!!"

The past couple of weeks I have been volunteering at the UNT LTC Summer Institute, an emersion-and-project-based intensive English-learning program for adult students from Toluca, Mexico.

It. Has. Been. Awesome.

The students and teachers are all amazing, and I'm learning so much. On Friday, my Performing Arts class performed a flash mob that they conceptualized called "We are Mexicans!! We are Humans!!"


"We are Mexicans!! We are Humans!!" from Shertown Studios on Vimeo.


They really had a good time with it and so easily addressed such a politically/personally-charged issue (although, let's be honest, there aren't exactly a wealth of hyper-conservatives prowling around UNT.) Seriously, these students are great. They have been cracking me up every day. I will be so sad when they go home on Saturday.