Saturday, September 25, 2010
This Saturday was not a usual one, very early in the morning we departed from Mazza to attend a class in Benjamin at UMD, really it was a meeting between Dr. Roberta Lavine and her group of students who are presently working at schools in Montgomery and Prince George´s Counties. These people are Spanish and French teachers, so they shared their experiences with us working as Teachers to speakers of other languages. This characteristic matched our role as Teachers of English in Argentina due to the fact that in the States they teach a language that is not used as a second but as a foreign language. It was a valuable opportunity to exchange mails for future surveys related to my capstone project and to learn about useful sites that they use to teach English.
After this meeting, the group participated in a videoconference with an Argentine artist who delivered a lecture on Visual Arts about reading images.
Later this night, eight of us took a “Moonlight Tour” of Washington, parting from Union Station and visiting the most famous buildings of the city, which were amazingly displayed under the light of the moon and some of them beautifully mirrored in the reflecting pools, lakes or rivers surrounding them.
