Second Visit

1. After our first time with Kelly, the representative, we had some trouble communicating about times to meet. We went there two times and they were not there. The first time because of a mistake in setting up times, them have a conflict at the time we had set with our representative, and the other because they were not there. After that we were finally able to iron out a time to meet. The second time we meet with the family we played a couple rounds of UNO to get everything started. After the first round we had everyone say the number of the card in English to start working with them on their English. The children were eager but got a little too eager because they always were helping their parents even thought their parents are the ones that need to learn the most. After a while, Britteny, Ainslie, and I set up a post it game were we put post its on objects around the house with the label of what it was on it. We let everyone go around and look at them all and then we took them back down and had the family put them back up on the respective items. With the children getting rowdy we then worked with the parents to help them learn money. We also answered some questions they had about American culture or our norms. Just some little things about what is considered proper etiquette.

2. The sending and receiving of  messages when communicating has become a little better but still, for the most part, we have to go through another person to talk to the parents. When we were working with the parents separately from the children, I feel like they got a lot more out of what we were trying to teach. When the children are with they want to take over and do almost everything for the parents. And when they are with us I feel like it gives the mother reason not to try things for herself. She seems to be quite shy and although she is taking everything in, she often asks for her children's help instead of us. I feel like this is because she is not as comfortable with us and the culture as the others.

3. In regards to our meetings with our family, I learned that it helps to separate the parents and the children because they are on such different levels. The children already know a lot of what we are teaching and although they need a little help with minor things they don't need the help that the parents do. I feel this might also help the parents because then they won't have the children around to translate for them, so they will have to talk to us themselves which will help them when it comes to putting together sentences.