District 2 English camp graduates 36

This month long summer camp for English learners is very successful in teaching the kids. It uses different methods than the usual ESL classes do and now they will be able to function better in school. - - Donna Poisl

BY GILEAN WATTS

The first day of school is never easy, but when you don’t even speak English, it can be downright frightening.

Seventeen-year-old Katherin Aponza knows this all too well. Barely knowing a word of English, Aponza was enrolled in Grade 10 at Moncton High School this past September.

“It was so scary because everybody was speaking and I was wondering what they were saying,” she said.

“Now I don’t speak it very well but I understand it very well.”

Her native language is Spanish, but after a month of English Additional Language summer camp held by District 2, she can now speak and understand her new language.

“It’s fun learning to speak another language,” she said. “They teach us words we don’t know and that’s really cool. I love learning new words.”
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