Teaching English as a Foreign Language

My long awaited course finally started. The TEFL certificate course that I decided to pursue to occupy my time. Who knows I might even become a teacher in some school here in Kolkata. Anyway, we are into the 2nd week of our course and it has served well in occupying my time. In fact more time than i could afford with the tons of assignments we gotta at home. The class is great with 8 of us in total. One from South Africa, 3 from USA, 1 from Israel and 2 from India. The trainer is a fantastic tutor, someone you can keep listening to for hours. We are now starting our teaching practices which is the highlight of the course.. I think we have 8 of them. Trow we are starting with the Shared teaching practice which we get to do in pairs. I got exposure to a local govt school which hosts largely kids of underprivileged families. It was an awesome experience just talking to one student. I think there are far more educational experiences to come, more than just learning how to be an English teacher.