Slukat overview

Daniel here,

We are currently sitting at the Komune Beach Club drinking cappuccinos and talking about our first few days at Slukat. There are classes that meet Mondays and Wednesdays and classes that meet Tuesdays and Thursdays. On each of those days there are classes that run from 3:30 to 5:00 (these classes are typically basic classes) and classes that meet from 5:00 to 6:30 (these are typically intermediate and advanced classes). The classes are set up this way so the students can attend their local schools in the morning and come to Slukat in the afternoon. For the first couple of days we were paired up with other volunteer teachers to observe their class and see how they teach their classes. There wasn't much observing going on, we were immediately teaching and last night Travis and I taught a class on our own.
The kids are absolutely fantastic, they are so eager to be at Slukat and learn English. One of the surprising things about the kids is how connected they are, we never in a million years thought we would have to tell the kids to put their phones away in class or get off Facebook while on the computers in computer class. We are also very surprised by their love of "Gangnam Style" and Justin Bieber, its amazing how connected the world is today. Slukat's theme this month is Christmas so we have been making snowflakes with the kids (its kind of hard to explain what snow is to someone who lives less than 500 miles from the equator), watching home alone, and making Christmas cards for the kids to take back to their friends and family.
Overall it has been an amazing first couple of days and we cannot wait to see what the next 4 weeks have in store for us. We will take pictures with the kids after our afternoon classes and post them on the blog.