English Language Mentoring

I forgot to mention that I have volunteered at the English Language Center as an English mentor - they wanted native English speakers to meet with groups of City University students each week to just chat in English and help the students to improve their English and feel more comfortable speaking with a native speaker. I met with my group this week and they're really nice - I have a girl from Hong Kong and two guys from mainland China. They were a little intimidated by me at first I think, but I took out my Chinese book and showed them what I was learning - they thought it was hysterical that I was learning such easy stuff, and I think it loosened them up about speaking with me (I told them, "your English is way better than my Chinese!") We are planning on doing different activities over the semester - playing table tennis, going out to lunch, taking a tram up to the Peak, and watching Friends. There's also going to be a BIG Halloween party, which I'm really excited about - I was really sad to be missing Halloween, so I'm glad I'll have an excuse to dress up. It will be fun to help the Chinese students dress up for their first Halloween :) Next week my group decided to play Pictionary. They don't know what they're going up against...