Monday, October 6th, 2008
This week the kids' books arrived and we quickly arranged a meeting with the volunteers in charge of the English kids' classes. We now have a whole series of books for the adult classes. In a couple of weeks we will have Erika and Michael back from the US ...
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Delayed culture shock. I swallowed it all in, my eyes drunk everything up in a non baffled but curious way. Rocinha is an amazing and vibrant place, and i2i is a reflection and physical representation of the energy and creativity that people have here!
I've been teaching English at i2i for ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 9am is the beginning English class for kids at i2i. One thing we have started to do recently is decorate the third floor classroom (codename "London") with various projects made by the students.
Last week we did an activity involving body parts. Our goal (me ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
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What would the community of Rocinha look like if the children, adults and volunteers of i2i were given access to laptops, high speed internet, cameras, Skype phone calling, web cams, printers, a projector and even a network server with wireless Internet?
The 11-year-old girls of i2i ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
It's sometimes hard to keep track of what is all going on at the institute. Below is the class schedule for the new semester that began last Monday. We have added more languages, art and Capoeira classes for the children. The adult English classes are also reorganized into two separate ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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Rogerio, one of i2i staff members in Rocinha, came to me a few weeks ago and asked me to make a pair of wooden stilts. I was slightly confused and had to be reassured that we were talking ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
In the adult English class I teach on Monday and Wednesday nights we just completed a longer writing assignment. I asked the students a set of three questions.
Where did you grow up? Where did you go to school? What is your family like?
What do you like to do for fun? ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
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I teach a children’s English class that is made up of 13 girls and 1 boy (who I’ve only seen once) whose ages range from 9 to 12. This is a relatively big class at i2i and some of the students ...
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