From Grits to Chopsticks

The Annual English Summer Camps have begun at our school.  As usual, there are three camps – a camp for children:

and a camp for college students and a camp for teachers from countryside schools:We are thankful for the wonderful teachers and college students who come from America to lead these camps and build relationships: I usually give a welcome speech at the opening ceremony.  This year, I played a few songs with a former student:

We played a happy song and a love song, but we put most of our effort into the song that expresses how most students really feel about learning English: “The Foreign Language Blues”:Two days before we performed, I taught the student how to play the harmonica break (click to hear->FLB):We used this to illustrate three important points of language learning: have fun, don’t be afraid to make mistakes, and learn something you can use.