Today was the last of the class for this month. I enjoy teaching the San Jose class because they hotel we use it four minutes from my house. That works a lot better than when I teach in San Francisco and have leave my house an hour before class starts. This class was interesting, really a diversity of types of students. There were women from Iran and Korea. There were some people that had just graduated from college, and some that were mid-career and one that was retired and wanted to give back to the society of the world. I admire my students, they quickly learn some skills and then set of for the adventure of a lifetime. I try my best to give them something to start with, and I know that they will end up surpassing me in teaching ability. I keep in touch with some students, a woman that went to France even emails me periodically telling me what works and what doesn't, and she even sends pictures which I am so happy to see. I talk to a couple of old student on FaceBook and they help me see what they go through overseas and it makes me sometimes feel like I'm part of their family. The majority of my students I never hear from again. I really feel like I am affecting lives of my students and their students. I hope that I am appreciated and people remember me. This class was fun during their final class, some people did lessons with candy, some let the students play with Playdoh, and we even got the chance to run an obstacle course. Lots of innovative lessons and I think everyone realizes that they have to have their students play to learn. They all remembered that you can't learn if you can't laugh!!
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