My second day was in a classroom, but a classroom where you teach students how to cook. The teacher taught them how to bake a cheesecake! I don't remember all the ingredients, but I do remember the ingredients and instructions for the crust. To make crust, you must have 2 cups of graham crackers, 2 tablespoon of brown sugar, one tablespoon of margarine. While preparing the crust and the cheese to bake, they are cooperating by words and gestures to point out which ingredients they needed.
In the class of grade 7, I recognized a student from the hairdressing club. I hang out and talked with her during class time. I noticed that students speak some slang like ''gonna'' and ''whatcha doing?''.
Classroom and Internship
Being in class and to be in a language immersion situation are both good. They have advantages and disadvantages at the same time. In class, by theory, you learn a lot of new vocabularies, but you will forget to use it because the opportunity rarely comes. When you are immersing in an environment, you can become more fluent, set your space of speaking the language and make use of what you've learned in class on the field. You can also learn by reading, listening and observing from near.
During the internship, I had to repeat myself and asks questions several times to communicate clearly. When I forget the word in English, I paused in the middle of the sentence and continued with the right word or I make gestures, eyes contacts or explain the description of the word and they guessed it. If not, I will say it the word in French and they will say the word in English.
New Words
I learned two words. The first one is ''nappé'', the word is use only in cooking. You say ''nappé'' when the foam is liquid and it is not thick and sticky anymore. The second is ''bending''. I learned it when hanging out with a student of grade 7. We saw that the inflatable doll for Christmas decoration, no air on the floor. Shen then said: '' The doll is bending! So funny! '' and we laughed.
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