It's seven weeks since I have started my project. I have been working every week at something new, but I start to feel that I should have done more than that. But I believe that teaching and also learning a new language takes time.
Teaching Mariela become harder, more complicated, and we are unable to work like before after school. Because she moved to a new house in Garden Grove, and she go by bus. Therefore she can not stay or she will miss the bus.
Honestly I don't know why I keep having troubles in doing my project!! Like in the first I made my project to teach a Gardenia but she moved from the class, then I planed to work with Naima and also we couldn't because she can't stay while she has a practice for soccer. And now Mariela can't stay!! I feel mad a little bit, worry, and hopeless...
This week I didn't work on something new, I just saw her around in school we said a few sentences in Arabic but I am sure that is not enough. So I have been thinking of finding a way that will let me work with her and keep going in practicing Arabic or we will be just wasting time. I start to feel that she is not willing to learn like before, and we don't have enough time to finish what I have planned to do. But still we didn't do anything different than my project plan.
I want a way that will make teaching Arabic to Mariela more fun and likable, so that she will keep willing to learn new things in Arabic. So I thought about making some drawings of people who are talking and write the conversations, in which when she go over them she can memories better.