International Students visit Metcalf!

Today many of our students had the exciting opportunity to have students from all over the world visit their classrooms.  This morning students from Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Brazil presented information about their home country to five students who are deaf/hard of hearing.  The presentations were given orally, with visual Power Point presentations including pictures.  Additionally, two of our Teachers of the Deaf provided sign language interpretation to further enhance the students' ability to learn from these visitors.

We learned about how people in Thailand enjoy the sport of boxing and we saw some pictures of delicious-looking Thai food including shaved ice, shrimp and noodles.  We saw pictures of beautiful waterfalls and learned about tiny monkeys that could fit into our hands in Brazil.  The students were excited to learn some Arabic letters and to see how some of their names looked when written in Arabic.  They were particularly surprised to see that the student from Saudi Arabia wrote the Arabic letters and words from right to left instead of from left to right as we do.  We taught our visitors the sign language symbols for some letters as our visitor from Saudi Arabia taught us Arabic letters.

Thanks to everyone who made this presentation possible for our students!  It was an enjoyable morning for all of us and something our students will talk about for a long time.