This morning, I had to report to the gifsthop for its regular routinework of which I am the one in charge. Litttle did I know that it was also the scheduled day to tutor my brothermonk Vitnamese John D Baptist in English- So I did have to attend to the giftshop's offc. works while teaching him the alphabet and its vowel/consonant sounds.
John Baptist is Novice monk of our community and has left his monastery in Vetnam as postulant. He continued his monastic formation in Christ in the Desert and is hoping to get accepted and take his Simple Profession with us. But that will be 10 months from now.
Back in Vietnam, Bro John Baptist never spoke English as his school does not offer English classes, that's why he graduated in Nursing with Vietnamese language as their medium of instruction. So, he needed to start learning the Alphabet and Phonics as his main difficulty now lies on vowel and consonant sounds and as well as English pronunciation as he had never ever spoken any English before.
So, still with my eyebags (from my late-hour sleep last night trying to finish the blog draft of my reflections which I posted in my original blog) I had to hurdle the non-stop and without break three-and-a-half hour tutoring with my 32 year old monkbro. John Baptist.
BTW, you may wonder and you may ask me why and how come we are still into our monastic works even during this day of the Holy week. Actually, we only start with our Holy week observance (like some sort of a holiday to you out there) starting Holy Thursday. By Thursday, we will have a strange schedule to give way for the community's liturgical activities. We will resume our normal schedule back on Monday next week.
2 comments:
hay naku kursunada ng mutant yang mga flash card na phonics ng alaga mo.... tuwang tuwa ng makita...
hello kuya!
nakakatuwa nman kuya at ikaw ang titser nya...for sure matututo sau yan...
musta po? ingats po palagi! send my Hio and Hello's to besspren...hehehe
Bless u!
have a Blessed Holy Week!
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