At about 830am I asked my Arabic teacher when we would be returning. Her answer was when the trip is over. lol Gotta love it. That was the tone of the entire trip. At 10ish we boarded the bus to head to the supermarket. I had no idea what the plan was but I flowed with it. There were 4 teacher, two Arabic and two English, two cleaners and a lady who I did not know for about 20 kids. The bus ride was um interesting. The only people concerned that the kids were standing on the chairs were we English teachers. We tried to get them to sit but success was not to be ours.
Upon arrival the children were lined up by gender and we marched in. The kids were led to the produce section where an employee was told our purpose and he held up items for the kids to label. He did so in Arabic and the other English teacher and I took turns doing so in English. The whole thing lasted may 15-20min. I thought that was it. We boarded the bus and headed to a souq(local market). Souqs are set up a bit differently, kinda like a farmer's market. We chose one of the fruit & veggie areas to go visit and the entire routine was repeated. This time the kids were given bananas as they left. It was a fun trip and when we returned to school I had the kids draw pictures of what they saw on the trip and they practiced identifying them in English.
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