I’ve been writing here quite a bit these last days. Probably because I’m in a new season of life and things change and new stuff happen. Well, I am teaching an ESL adult class twice a week until the end of June. We’re about 10 people, all the ladies’ mother tongue (L1!) is Arabic. So it’s kind of neat, I don’t have to spend much time at all teaching them about the “th” sound and how to pronounce it since this phoneme (or sound?) is part of their sound inventory in Arabic, isn’t that nice? Frenchies have a big problem with the “th” sound. These ladies seem to like me a lot and I do to!

Today I’ve been working on our next class. Especially on the homework I’m giving them. They asked me if they could have homework… These people are obviously not teenagers! I didn’t think it would be such a … pain to create homework, but it is. You don’t want to bore them with drills, but since I don’t want them (drills) in my classroom, but still believe they’re important, I need them in the homework I give. I need to be careful that it’s not beyond their capacity, but that can still challenge them a bit, and even those who are a bit better than the rest of the group too. … If you’d be one of my teachers at university you’d be interested in what I’ve been writing, but you’re not so I’ll change to something else…

 You know the song “Jesus, all for Jesus” (or whatever it’s called)? I was listening to it some days ago and I realized again that “all I am and have and ever hope to be, all of my ambitions, hopes and plans” it’s all for Jesus. So when I teach those ESL classes, I do it for Christ. How am I to do that? I’m not exactly sure (and if you have ideas, let me know), but I think that I should bear in mind that this is for Jesus and that what is most important is to make Him known, to bring glory to His name. It’s kind of sketchy since I’m a Christian and those ladies are probably all Muslims. I’m not saying that I am going to teach them ESL using Bible verses as examples and etc.! I’m just saying that my attitude should be the same as Jesus and I should take up every opportunity to make God look great. I’m glad I’m not teaching for the sake of teaching ESL or for the sake of money. I’m teaching for God’s sake… hopefully.