By Mary Channing Stephens | International Volunteer
These past three months for the Community Learning Center (CLC) have flown by! Our three separate language classes (two English and one Thai) have such promising students who have shown remarkable success. These scholars are hard workers and their teachers couldn’t be prouder.
As our International volunteer, Channing, starts to wind down her time teaching CLC, she observes how far her students have come from when she first started teaching.
“There pronunciation has come a really long way. Through the use of poetry and tongue twisters, each student is starting to get more and more used to the different sounds of the English language. It is no easy feat, either. The English way of spelling versus pronunciation is extremely difficult to get the hang of since there are so many rules and exceptions to the rules!”
Volunteer Channing sat down with a new regular, Pam, and Pam told her all about her aspirations.
“When I graduate high school, I want to go to Chiang Rai University to study English and Hotel Management! I want to live in a big city like Chiang Mai or Bangkok and work in a really nice Hotel, so I can meet people from all over the world. One day, I would like to work outside of Thailand, and travel, and meet more friends. I want to have a friend on every continent!...South Africa would be a really cool place to work, I think, but I also really want to go to New York and Miami. I want to go to New York because I want to see all of the lights and snow!…I think CLC is very helpful because it goes over what I learn in school, too, so I can remember things better.”
So, there you have it! CLC has had another successful term, and we look forward to checking back in in three months.
We would like to thank all of our donors who keep helping this amazing program happen and who help these wonderful kids achieve their dreams.
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