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Libby and I teach English for a total of about 20 hours a week. Some of the classes are taught solely by us, others are in classrooms with more than 30 kids where there is also another teacher present and then others are small groups of about 5-10 seniors who are studying for the TOEFL English exam. (...and that's what you call a run-on sentence, class.)

One of the classes that i usually look forward to teaching is a conversation class that is made up of 7 people ages 13-19 and meets after school three times per week.

I've never seen a group of students so eager to speak.

A few minutes before the class had begun, i had been talking to Jennifer on facebook and she inspired me to inspire them. I love how feelings can can even pass through computer cords and satellite dishes and black lines and dots that show up on someone else's screen.

Libby hadn't been able to make it to the class and usually I just prepare conversation/discussion prompts for them and we have a nice talk for about an hour about our favorite books, unique things about the culture, movies, dolphins, anything really..
It's very hot here and there isn't air conditioning anywhere so the classroom was absolutely stifling! I had an idea. I told them that if they promised to only speak in English, we could go buy ice cream! Gelato here is only 20 cents a scoop and I had 500 Leke in my pocket! (about $5) I've never had so much fun teaching a class in my life! We walked in a big group down the street to the ice cream stand, the whole time talking about the one thing that we love or are interested in that we feel makes us different from everyone else. One of the students said that she loves the book and film "A Walk To Remember." Another said that she loved to act and dance and another said that she really liked swimming and that last summer she won a swimming race at a pool in Tirana. Listening to people express themselves in a language that is foreign to them is so beautiful because it helps us remember how simple life actually is. I don't know if it's the fact that when one can only use simple words, things appear to be less complicated or if it's just that we're less complicated and only make ourselves into these Rubick's Cubes with our tongues. Does that even make sense?