Career Workshops Week 1 and 2

For the first week of the internship instead of teaching we took some time to study up on the economy of Brazil.  It's kind of intimidating the fact that we'll be teaching people younger and older than us in Portuguese about what they should do to get jobs in a economy we're not really familiar with.  We're expected to be experts overnight.  Sounds like a good challenge to me.  

So for the first week we sat in on a Brazilian teacher's career workshop to get some advice and a bigger picture of how to personalize the training for those that we will be teaching.  On the second week, this past week on Tuesday and Wednesday night from 7:30 to 10:30 PM we started teaching.  The first day was a little rough, and I was happy to get the kinks out.  The workshop we taught on Wednesday went a lot better.    I found that as we focused more on activities and the career exercises, everything flowed smoother and Anders and I were able to match up better our teaching styles.  One thing we learned from day one, (which is still kind of tough for me) is that we have to be tough with our class.  If we don't offer good, constructive feed back no one will get anything out of it.  After all, in the real world if someone blows a job interview no one is going to tell them what they did wrong and what they need to do better.