SAILing in the Sudan

I've promised myself never to slack off so much again. Some degree of slacking off is permissable, but not for a week per sae. I almost had a meltdown today I think. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to think of dinosaurs in the same way ever again. So in the midst of my temporary misery today, I figured i should back in the game of ESL tutoring. ESL teaching will probably be the job I'll have on the side until I become a really famous translator or TRSS (Translator Rock Star Status).

I found this really cool non-for-profit centre called SAIL, which is the Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning Program out in Footscray. Apparently this centre serves the largest population of Sudanese refugees in all of Australia. Its a program that was developed by request of other institutions requesting further resources for Sudanese refugee children outside of school hours.

Each Saturday from 10:30am-11:15, there is a weekend program for the sudanese kids to learn english, play games and all of that other good stuff kids like to do. So two Saturdays from now I will start volunteering a few saturdays a month as an ESL tutor.

When I was in 6th grade I did a report on the Sudan. I remember looking up the country in our 1993 set encyclopedia brittanica and tracing the flag. I bet the kids will be thrilled by that story!