Our day is becoming busier! We were helping with the conference for majority of our times. Our day started off with safety procedure of the building – i.e. where the emergency exits are, how to use the keys to the building, how to interact with patrons (and learners) while respecting their and our space, and other areas that we needed to be aware of. The meeting was very useful to us.

After lunch, we started making the button blankets for the conference on “Threading Our Stories”. The purpose of the button blanket creative lounge activity is to allow everyone in our DTES community to interweave our lives in a form of the Musqueam blanket.

While making the button blanket, I was pulled into an ESL class teaching senior students with Level 0 English-writing and reading activity. I taught the senior students for roughly 15-20 minutes before the Facilitator came in on pronunciation and spelling. After that, I got a chance to observe the Facilitator teach the students, which was wonderful. I have learned a lot from teaching and observing the class. I have to say that teaching senior students are very different than teaching younger, high school students! I quite enjoyed my teaching even though it was only 15-20 minutes. The seniors were very welcoming!

After our teaching, I had a chance to play mah-jong (a Chinese tile game) with a Facilitator and other patrons. It was very fun to play mah-jong even though I had no prior knowledge of how to play this game. I was grateful to have the Facilitator and the patrons teach me! 😀