Thursday, October 16, 2008

Day 49: My first Session!

October 14, the Conservatives got re-elected (boo!) for another term as a minority (Yay!) government and all the way in rainy Costa Rica, I led my first independent group session completely in Spanish.

So a psychology student here, Sara, and myself are coordinating and facilitating the Social Education group here at MUSADE, and we split up the work so that she leads two session, I lead two, two are done by speakers and two are the intro and the conclusion. My first session that I was leading was this Tuesday on the topic of Human Rights.

I won´t bore you will all the details, but I think it went well, and there was a lot of discussions, and I was able to relate examples and clarifications on the spot in complete intelligible Spanish sentences.
The parts of the UN human rights code I had to read out were less fluid, some of the pronunciation still eludes me, but all in all I am going to take this session as a success.

3 comments:

Kiana Keyvani said...

good job!

Unknown said...

I'm still asstonished at how quickly and how well you picked up Spanish...*standing ovation for you*

Viajero said...

Woah woah...not exactly fluent here...still have plenty of stumbling blocks.