EFL Teacher in Viet Nam
As this blog is going to focus on and around Sen’s cute little English school, maybe a quick description is required.
EFL Teaching in Vietnam. A small school, but a good school.
It is a small EFL school located in a house. To be more exact, it is located in what was once my living room. The one classroom is at ground level, which means the sounds of motorbikes, motorbike horns, buses, bus horns, the piercing shrieks of vendors, dogs barking, and almost any other noise you can think of easily penetrates into the classroom space. Nobody seems to notice this, except me.
Sen’s English school is so humble, that I think it doesn’t even has an official name. Everyone in the neighbourhood just calls it “Sen’s school”. There are four afternoon/evening classes across ten time slots, from Monday to Friday. Occasionally, there might be a 30 minute one-to-one class earlier in the afternoon.
Even though Sen’s school is humble in the extreme, very little happens here by accident. I’ve been teaching for nearly 25 years now, and this school is set up in a very precise way. But more about the mechanics of running a one room school another day.
Anyway, Xmas is just around the corner. I’m happy to drag out the decorations and the carols asap. For a communist country Viet Nam celebrates Christmas well. I want our place to be first up with the decorations this year.
Paul Rowe
Teaching4fun 