Quick update

It's been awhile since our last post, we've been incredibly busy.

Our Arabic language school is considerably more time intensive than we originally planned, but we're excited at our progress. The current plan is to use our language abilities once we return to the states to continue serving the refugee community in Chicago.

We've also started our other job, teaching English which we both are enjoying. We really like all of our students. I have almost 20 students in my class, of varying degrees of ability. I teach level 1, not introductory, and Molly teaches level 2. From what we've seen and what we have been told Arabs tend to show a great deal of respect for their teachers or anyone in a place of authority. Due to our location, many of the people in our classes run in the "high" social circles but they still treat me a newly 30 year old man with tons of respect. Teachers in the states I'm sure would kill for this.

Last week I gave the first quiz to my class. For some strange reason Molly thinks grading is fun, so she graded my quizzes. While my students were taking the quiz, I took it myself as well to use as the answer key, but didn't put my name on it. Molly graded my paper fairly harshly, I missed four out of 21 although I contend three of the four correct. Meaning a few of my students actually beat me on the test. My level one students.......

Perhaps their respect is misplaced, ha.




(Ok to be fair, she counted three of my answers incorrectly for not capitalizing the first word of a sentence. One question I just straight up missed though.)