Why am I grateful for this opportunity to be a language assistant?
For me, the experience of working as an auxiliar de conversacion has provided me a million new opportunities to learn - from trying to communicate in and improve a second language, to helping with English in a geology class (which I've never had the opportunity to take before), or learning to cook some new Spanish some new dish/food. The truth is I'm here to learn much as I am here to teach English. I even learn new things about English every time I try to explain one of its many generalizations or inconsistencies. Teaching swimming healed me to realize that kids don't learn the same way, and with some kids you Hve to explain the same thing a million different time and in a million different way before you find the one that will work for that child. This is just as true now as it was then, and it can seem infinitely harder to explain something with just the right words for the understanding of an ESL student. Something I try to do without using too much Spanish.I've only been here for two and a half months, but I have already learned so much. What will I learn in four months? Or six? Or a year?
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