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Yesterday, two of my classmates and I gave our last presentation for one of our classes. I've digitized the clip and put it on the web. If you have an hour of free time, you can link to this site and enjoy our presentation. If you have only half and hour, you can skip to 2/3 of the clip, which is the turn of my presentation.

It's not really a field trip, it's actually an activity that the regular teacher of RW class came up with. We went to a large park that is about 10-minute-drive away from campus. It's called "Deming Park".

It was really a big park. After having all 12 students gathered in the parking lot near the entrance, we started to walk into the park. Every 3-5 minutes, we would assign a student to a spot. The students had to describe all the details around them using adjectives and relative clauses. When all the students were settled down in their own spot, me and the regular teacher would walk around and check if they have any problem with their writing. We would help them mostly their vocabulary and description problems. After about an hour of writing, it was about time for the class, and the homework was assigned. The homework was to type out their writing today, check all the sentences, and most important of all, correct their spelling. Since 9 out of 12 students were from Saudi Arabia, and most of them had serious spelling problem, we hoped that the computer technology would help them out a little bit.

PS. There's 11 students in this picture because one of the students that is a Saudi Arabia girl can not take any pictures with Saudi Arabia men. Well... culture difference.