Theater/English

I went to the theater in Montana with my language on Thursday. I love that the movie theater closed because it wasn't profitable, but live theater is so popular. The show we saw was packed. It was my second time attending a play in Bulgaria. “Easy Dying” was much more comprehensible to me than the one I saw in Sliven. Although, the other play was certainly entertaining, the conceptual plotline and intangible set—there was an imaginary garden and the actors who randomly broke into song, discussed Gatsby, quoted Shakespeare, and ribbon danced—were a bit too abstract for my level of language comprehension. This play, however, I understood (at least some parts…thankfully, the characters, two crotchety old men, talked a lot about food).

My tutor and I went to the theater following a special lesson for her 6th grade class. She teaches English at a language school. The school has classes in two shifts-a morning group and an evening group-so this lesson was at 6 pm. I think it would be difficult to go to class in the evenings and create a strange schedule for the teachers, but the students in her class were great. They were super talkative and interested in American life. I was a bit nervous, about leading the lesson—29 kids is a big class and I didn’t know any of them—but, the ‘icebreakers’ I had prepared were unnecessary, they began launching questions faster than I could answer them almost right away.