Impromptu Clothing Store

Yesterday we had a great English class at the centro. All this week we learned vocabulary for clothing and numbers greater than twenty. They learned how to say How much does this cost? and That's expensive or That's cheap. Yesterday everyone brought in some clothes from home and we set them up all over the classroom, mostly hanging off of desks. Each person had their market stall and had the chance to be both a customer and a saleswoman/man. Damaris was the saleswoman from hell.... her jewelry cost a lot of money, but she refused to accept credit cards or let anyone try anything on. She also wouldn't reduce the price of anything. She and Erick got into a fight (in english!!) when he accused her of trying to pass off plastic earrings as gold. Sylvillita and Xochilt both really enjoyed asking to try on everything and put together different outfits. (very unfortunately the batteries of my camera weren't charged so I couldn't take any pictures!). Silvillita was wearing my hat and Damaris' sunglasses, and Xochilt was wearing my long denim skirt with a sequined tank top. I think the phrase of the day was, "I'll take it."

The really exciting part about the class was that it was really the first time that the students have improvised conversations in English. And even one of my students who has a really hard time remembering things day to day learned some of the clothing vocab.