Dr. Paul's Language School

Our reading sessions are Monday through Friday at Dr. Paul's Language School, which is about a 7-minute walk from our apartment. It is on the 8th floor of a 24 floor building. Dr. Paul's Language School is a school for teaching English to Korean students. The students attend other schools during the daytime and then come to Dr. Paul's in the evenings. There are classes for students from first grade through high school. Most of the teachers in the school are Americans. The owners of the school, Sun Woo and Serena, have been so helpful to us. These are photos from Dr. Paul's school.




These are pictures from the office area. The first is Sun Woo's desk.



We begin at 9:00 a.m, take a lunch break at 12:00, then read from 2:00-4:00 and from 5:00-7:00----for a total of 7 hours of reading per day. Ron and I have 18 readers between us.



Tuesday and Wednesday of this first week are full days, but Thursday and Friday are Labor Day (also known as May Days) holidays in China, so some of our readers can not come on those days. (Before this year the Chinese Labor Day holidays lasted for one week, but there was a new law passed that limited the holiday to two days.)
Our readers are mostly university students---there are 2 universities in Qingdao. Most are pretty good at reading and understanding English, but they all need practice in English pronunciation and conversation. We are really enjoying getting to know all of our new friends! Some have read with previous LST workers, and some are new to LST.