i made it to loja
well, i have completed my teacher training course. i was in colombia for 7 weeks. it went by so fast. let me give you a quick run-down of things that have happened so far.
during my training course, we talked about all kinds of things in foreign language acquisition such as speaking, listening, pronunciation and so on. while working on pronunciation we got to try out some tongue twisters to use in our classes. here's one of my favorites:
a tutor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot
said the two to the tutor
"is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
now say it 5 times fast!
and for those of you who love the question game (the one where you can only ask questions), i figured out that it's a good speaking activity for a class. that was a very exciting moment.
and now i'm in ecuador. it was quite an interesting journey here. i flew from cali to tulcan. tulcan is a border town on the ecuadorian side of the border. the airport has approximately two rooms (if you want to get an idea i have one picture from the tulcan airport in my flickr photos). one that you enter and go through immigration. my visa to enter the country is a stamp and in handwriting are the number of days i'm allowed to stay. the second room is the gate to go back outside to the same plane. then we continued on to quito. unfortunately, the flight was 1 hour late so i missed the last flights that go down to loja. sam picked me up from the airport and we went to the bus terminal to try to find a bus for me. luckily, there was one ticket left on the 8:20 bus to loja. perfect. we had a little bite to eat before my bus and then i was off.
i arrived in loja the next morning around 8:30. and that afternoon i went to the university to see about a job. well, it looks good and they want to hire me but we just need to see about a work visa. so keep your fingers crossed.
during my training course, we talked about all kinds of things in foreign language acquisition such as speaking, listening, pronunciation and so on. while working on pronunciation we got to try out some tongue twisters to use in our classes. here's one of my favorites:
a tutor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot
said the two to the tutor
"is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
now say it 5 times fast!
and for those of you who love the question game (the one where you can only ask questions), i figured out that it's a good speaking activity for a class. that was a very exciting moment.
and now i'm in ecuador. it was quite an interesting journey here. i flew from cali to tulcan. tulcan is a border town on the ecuadorian side of the border. the airport has approximately two rooms (if you want to get an idea i have one picture from the tulcan airport in my flickr photos). one that you enter and go through immigration. my visa to enter the country is a stamp and in handwriting are the number of days i'm allowed to stay. the second room is the gate to go back outside to the same plane. then we continued on to quito. unfortunately, the flight was 1 hour late so i missed the last flights that go down to loja. sam picked me up from the airport and we went to the bus terminal to try to find a bus for me. luckily, there was one ticket left on the 8:20 bus to loja. perfect. we had a little bite to eat before my bus and then i was off.
i arrived in loja the next morning around 8:30. and that afternoon i went to the university to see about a job. well, it looks good and they want to hire me but we just need to see about a work visa. so keep your fingers crossed.
posted by Solange at 12:55
2 Comments:
tootoorooloo...to frloo- ah, i can't do it! no matter how much i try!
glad you made it to ecuador :) guess where i was today? ... mexico!!! loved it, as short a visit as it was. went there randomly during a business trip to texas. wrote about it on my site. avoiding pronouns to make message as short as possible. ~Luis
hate pronouns.
nice knowing you're in ecuador safe and sound.
write more.
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