Teaching Assignments

Hi Everyone,

Below is a list of who's teaching what.  Class 1 is the lowest age/fluency and class 21 is the highest age/fluency.   In a week or so, we should receive a summary of each class, which will tell you  a little more clearly what age your kids are and what fluency level they are.  (The students are being tested this weekend and then the BJ school will give us the summary).    

Instead of being identified by classroom numbers (ie: Class #15, Class #2), you'll only be known as your classroom animal (ie: Bird class or Birds).  So please remember your animal :)

Roommates

Below you'll find your roommate for this July!  Here's some details:

• There are 2 twin beds 2 full-size beds (possibly an inch or two shorter than an American full-size bed) in each hotel room.  
• Probably all of your hotel rooms will be in one block on the same hallway. 
• You'll have a water dispenser in your room which the hotel refills as needed.  This water is drinkable and free for you. :) We'd encourage you to use this water to brush your teeth and to wash your contacts.  Some of our team members in the past haven't had trouble using tap water for teeth/contacts, but others have gotten mouth sores and burning eyes.Each room as a shower (or possibly a shower/bath combo... I'm not sure)
• Sheets/towels are provided and maid service changes your sheets and such once a week or so.
• Each room has air conditioning and a small fridge
• Underneath the hotel are 2 restaurants (we have an English menu for one of them), a place to get a 30 minute massage for a couple of dollars and a mini-mart where you can buy
• snacks
• drinks
• chinese sim cards and minutes
• medicine 
• Each room also has a closet that you can hang clothes inside (Added 6.10.2012)

Room #1	Jett Drafahl
	Matthew Johnston
Room #2	Lezlie Rozier
	Ashley Weyand
Room #3	Kenzie Crabtree
	Cecilia Mendez
Room #4	Amanda Dobransky
	Katie Lynch
Room #5	Annette Witte
	Emily Garner
Room #6	Casey Freeman
	Kimberly Love
Room #7	Meredith Hotz
	Cynthia Lopez
Room #8	Jordan Andrews
	Hannah Foster
Room #9	Amber Desmond
	Ali Silva
Room #10	Brooke Ledbetter
	Shannon Robbins
Room #11	Nathalie White
	Kaitlen Harrison
Room #12	Ashton Taylor
	Samantha Sirratt

What to Wear?

We've had alot of questions about what kind of clothing to bring this summer.  Here's what we recommend:


Girls:

• Comfortable walking shoes:  dress shoes, casual shoes, crocs, flip-flops, sandals, tennis shoes... just about anything is fine for both in the classroom and outside the classroom.  You'll be doing ALOT of walking so make sure you bring comfortable shoes.

• Classroom:  Skirts/Top, Pants or Capri's/Top or dresses are all fine.
• No spaghetti straps
• Skirts/dresses need to be as close to the knee as possible
• Shorts are not appropriate in the classroom.

• Not sure if your clothing is appropriate length, etc?  Stand in front of the mirror.  Lift your arms up, bend over, crouch down to the ground, sit in a chair, sit on the floor, etc.   Make sure you can't see any cleavage, stomach or too much leg, etc.   We want to be extra modest to not ruin our witness there, as well as to protect the guys on our team and not make them struggle.

• Evening/Weekend:  Comfortable clothes.  Nothing too short (walking shorts are fine.  Tank tops are fine as long as the straps are thick and you're not showing too much skin)

• Jeans - After the first week or two, jeans will be fine.  Please do NOT wear them the first week of school.

• Please do NOT wear any crosses, fish symbols or scripture on your clothes.

Boys:

• Comfortable walking shoes:  dress shoes, casual shoes, sandals, tennis shoes... just about anything is fine both in the classroom and outside the classroom. You'll be doing ALOT of walking so make sure you bring comfortable shoes.

• Classroom: pants and polo/button-down type shirt.

• Evening/Weekend:  Comfortable clothes.  Nothing too short (walking shorts are fine.  Please no wife-beater type shirts)

• Jeans - After the first week or two, jeans will be fine.  Please do NOT wear them the first week of school.

• Please do NOT wear any crosses, fish symbols or scripture on your clothes.

If you are breaking any of the clothing rules, we will take you to a nearby store and have you buy a new wardrobe.   Please ask if you have any questions about whether something is appropriate or not! :)

In general, you want to dress up a little bit more the first week.  It helps the students think of you as teachers and respect you as such.  Once you are confident in your classroom and have good classroom control, you can dress a little more casually.

How much clothing should you bring?

Your students (and many who work at the school and other locals) will most likely own 2 pairs of clothes.   School clothes and evening/weekend clothes.  So they will probably wear the same thing every day of camp. 

If you can, mix and match and re-wear clothing as much as possible so you don't have to pack as much.  Also remember that you'll be washing your clothes (the hotel has a washing machine down the hall) and line-drying them.  Because it's humid, it can take a couple of days for your clothes to dry... the more clothes you have drying, the longer it takes to dry.   


David and I tend to bring 2 pairs of 'school pants' (Amber usually wears khaki style capri's) and 3-4 polo's that we plan on wearing for the whole camp.  Then we bring a couple of t-shirts, couple pairs of shorts and a pair of jeans for evenings/weekends.  David usually brings 2 pair of comfortable shoes (generally indoor soccer shoes) that he can switch when one pair gets wet from the rain.  Amber usually brings 2 pair of sandals (crocs and a pair of walking sandals) and maybe some tennis shoes.   Hope this helps! :)

FAQ

Here are some of the questions that we've received thus far... we'll keep adding to this list, so keep sending us questions :)

1. Do you suggest having most of our lesson plans ready before we fly to BJ or do you suggest we wait until we get there?    We suggest you look through the curriculum (which we'll make available to you in a few days) and become very familiar with it, making a list of games/ideas for your classroom, and possibly plan out a day or two of activities/lessons/games once you know what grade level/fluency your class will be.    (You'll find out more of that soon, also)
2. Will we have computer access in our classroom that we can use a thumb drive to pull up curriculum or a powerpoint?   Kinder Teachers:  Your classrooms will not have a computer nor a projector in each one.  You'll have a chalk board or white board that you can use and will need to use lots of handouts.  1st grade and above: Your classrooms will have a computer and projector that you can use.  You can use that computer as much as you'd like or you can bring your own laptop to use in your classroom.   If you bring your own laptop, we can help you set it up to use the projector, print, use the internet, etc.
3. Can we drink the water?  No.  Only drink bottled water, which you can find at just about any corner store.  The school will have large water dispensers located through each building which you can fill up a cup or water bottle and drink.  Your hotel will also have a complimentary water dispenser with drinking water.  Buying water is super cheap...  usually around $0.25 or less for a nice size bottle.  Finding it cold is a little more difficult, so you might want to practice drinking room temperature water :)
4. Do we need to bring our own laundry soap?  You can or you can buy it there.   Tide is very easy to find over there and isn't that expensive.  
5. Do we have a meeting at DBU on July 4th?  (The day before we fly out)  Yes!!!  Please be prepared to spend most of July 4th up at DBU.   As soon as details are ironed out, we'll send them on to you, but for now, please be prepared to be there from 8am-5pm.
6. When will I receive school supplies, what's provided and how much room will it take in my suitcase?  On July 4th, you'll receive, approximately, a large brown paper grocery sack full of supplies.  This will probably include prizes, craft supplies and construction paper.  If you're teaching 2nd and below, you'll probably want to bring more of your own construction paper.  It's hard to find over there.   We're waiting to hear from the BJ school, but the school generally provides some school supplies such as rulers, pencils, crayons, etc.    And most supplies are pretty cheap to buy there, if you want more for your class.  Save about half the size of a carry-on for supplies.  These can be put in your carry-on or in your checked bags.