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8月22日 monday attend the orientation in the capital of maine with donna, o r assistant principal. 这一天去了缅因州的首府奥古斯都a g sta,参加为我们几位外语教师举行的培训和介绍会。 首府离我们这里并不远,开车大概三十到四十分钟吧,我们学校的副校长donna来接了我,我们大概九点多一点儿到了那里,其他两位志愿者同伴已经到啦。 下面这是缅因州教育部所在的大楼,楼里也有其他各个部门。 大概十点半的时候,我们去了对面的maine state ho se。 下面这位是我在北京时候的面试官don,缅因州教育部的world lang age specialist,人特别nice。 一个月前我刚到缅因的时候,是他和我的住家rebecca,她的儿子max,还有系主任candace和她的女儿alissa,一起在波特兰机场接了我,记得当时看到熟悉的面孔好亲切。 don为我们安排了这次培训,特别细心,很关照我们。(ps:这一个月,我晒的好黑...555...) 这是我们要和州长会面的会议室,也是州长的新闻发布厅。 一定看到显眼的"jobs！jobs！jobs！"了吧？美国经济危机下,州长工作压力的最大的就是解决就业问题。 meet the governor (all three of s) 我们的大合照 这是后来don发给我们的缅因州教育部新闻: est-teachers chinese g est teachers meet with lepage posted on a g st 24, 2011 by maine department of ed cation| leave a comment three teachers from china who will teach mandarin lang age and chinese c lt re classes in maine schools d ring the 2011-12 school year met with gov. pa l lepage on a g. 22 as part of a daylong orientation to their new jobs. the teachers - ren zifeng, wang hailong and yang xin - chatted with lepage abo t second-lang age acq isition, p blic schools in the united states and china, and abo t the task awaiting them as the school year begins. the three instr ctors are coming to maine with at least five years of experience each teaching college-level english at chinese niversities. in the coming weeks, they ll start work at three high schools and one middle school located thro gho t maine. ren zifeng will teach at washington academy in east machias. wang hailong will teach at maine central instit te in pittsfield. yang xin will split her time between mt. ararat middle and high schools in topsham. the three teachers are here as part of the chinese g est teacher program sponsored jointly by the college board and the hanban, the office of chinese lang age co ncil international in beijing. the maine department of ed cation works collaboratively with these sponsoring agencies. the teachers expect to spend one to three years working in maine schools. another teacher, ana fombella, will teach spanish lang age classes at katahdin middlehigh school in stacyville and so thern aroostook comm nity school in dyer brook. fombella, a spanish national, has more than 10 years of experience teaching english in spanish high schools. fombella is in maine as part of the visiting teachers from spain program, which is co-sponsored by the spanish ministry of ed cation and the maine department of ed cation. 之后,回去继续我们的orientation,讨论了classroom management。 再然后。已近中午,we had l nch in the cafe downstairs。我选的食物那个服务员给的太多了,结账时加起来貌似比别人的贵,不太好意思,可是也没办法啦,希望don不要介意。 下午也做了一些讲解和讨论,大多都是我们以前培训反复强调或者提过的,西班牙语老师还问r brics是什么,一到这个时候,我们仨个人就相视而笑,我们讲过哈！虽然具体操作还不熟悉,但毕竟心理优势具备了。 三点半,会议结束,我把给don带的小礼物留给他之后就和donna离开了。 路上donna问我对今天培训的感受是什么,我说挺全面的,不过更多感觉是在review呵。 回到家,歇了歇,明天要开始去学校开会了,连开三天,新的挑战！