Started shaping my teacher identity! :)

I feel great doing what I love, helping these students. I even like the way they refer to me, it's so respectful, they always ask "Miss could you please help me with this?" I get really exciting when I heard those words because they don't speak English and always want to speak Spanish so I tell them that if they don't ask me in English for help, then I won't help, and even though that's not true, they believed in my words. I really want to make a difference and help them and by encouraging them to speak English is a great way to help because that's the first thing they have to learn in order to do their homework. It's like starting shaping my teacher identity. They also called me "Profe" which is the short name for professor, but in Spanish because that's what they speak. Another thing that really show them that they need to respect me is the way I dress. In the Dominican culture an office attitude person, the way they dress, is really important and therefore you need to respect them.

A month working at VIPS!!!

It has been a month and couple of weeks already working with these high school students, they feel really  confident and comfortable working with me. There is not much I can said about my student, they are great and I love them. Sometimes I think that the reason why we get alone is because we all come from the same culture and speak the same language, which it always makes it easy. I learned a lot from my students, although they are all from the same country, Dominican Republic, they are really different from each other, but all of them are really respectful. I wish I could be around others students from another country so I could learn other cultures as well. I think I'm lucky for having these students, they give me no problems.