1 February 2008 – Friday

It started raining about 10 last night and it was still going strong this morning. Heavy rains continued to about 1:30 when it finally slowed down and then stopped. It reminded me of last February when the big floods hit on February 1 and 2. Hopefully that will not repeat this year.

We had a normal IEC day. The Walkers could not take the afternoon class – it was rather fortunate because we need the time to catch up with the homework assignments – and so we had them for both class periods. They are a great group – mostly relaxed but also wanting to learn. It is usually a pleasure to teach them. They still need lots of work on grammar but their conversational English is very good. I think for the next class we are going to start earlier work more on pronunciation.  I really think with some work three of the students and maybe four could pass the Michigan or TOEFL test and get accepted to BYUH.  That is our goal.

Mary spent much of the evening working on getting sets of materials for the High School English classes put together. We read from the Kitab Mormon – about 60 pages left for this trip through. In thinking back I am not quite sure what I did as the night just seems to have run by.