Roberto's Picture

Roberto selected this picture to represent his friendship that he had with his best friend. He was unable to post it in his comments so here it is.

Remembering Our Loved Ones

From the teacher: We have been studying the past tense form of verbs in class. I asked students to write about someone that they loved who passed away. In conjunction with this writing exercise and the holidays of Halloween and Day of the Dead some of the students put together a beautiful rememberance table. This table follows the tradition of Catholic Spanish speaking countries.

Someone I Remember

A special person to me.

This is my friend. His name was Jose. He lived in Mexico, but one day he moved to Los Angeles, CA.
He worked for 9 months. He was trying for a better future with his family. But unfortunately he died in Los Angeles.

Antonio Andres

A special person to me


This is my father. His name was Enrique Gonzalez. He died 6 years ago. He worker in different place selling food. He was a hard worker. He had big and brown eyes. My other person is my mother. Her name was Maria Lazalde. She was a beautiful mom. She died 12 years ago. I miss my parents a lot, but I know they are now in a better place.




Maria Dera

Special person to me

I will talk to you about my grandfather Abdellah. He died 13 years ago at about 70 years of age, in Taroudant, Morocco. He had brown eyes and a little white beard. He usually wore traditional clothing like ‘Jellaba’ and ‘Belgha’. He worked as an Arabic language teacher. He taught children. He was serious and a hard worker. He liked children and he was happy.
I liked him very much because I was named after him.

Our Weekend

What We Did Over the Weekend - written by the students and dictated to the teacher in class.
Silvia went to the supermarket to buy food. Then, she went to the car wash to clean her car. She went to church to pray. She went to the laundromat to wash her clothes. Saturday, Karol woke up at 9:00 a.m. and stayed home all afternoon. In the evening, she went to a party with her husband and her baby. Sunday morning they went to Denny’s restaurant for breakfast. Karol went to the supermarket and Walmart to buy food and diapers on Sunday afternoon. Ester went to visit her mother and her sister for two hours. She went to the park. She rode her bicycle with her husband and her sons. They went to Foods For Less together and then to church at 1:00 pm. Ester went to the gas station. At 5:00 she started work and stayed until 1:00 in the morning. Itzel went to the ranch on Friday with her brother and his wife. She ate meat and afterwards she played with her nephew. At night she went to a club. She danced very much but she didn’t drink anything. On Saturday she slept all day. Ileana washed and dried her family’s clothes. She made a cake for her grandson’s birthday. They visited bowling for the birthday. On Sunday they went shopping and to the supermarket. At night they visited church. Afterwards, they watched TV. Roberto had a so-so weekend. Saturday morning he watched El Salvadorian news. At night he worked. Sunday morning, he met with his friends from El Salvador. Irslan had a very bad weekend. His work closed. He doesn’t have a job now. He went to the mosque and prayed.

At the Computer Lab

Here is our class in the computer lab. We are practicing English using Randall's Cyber Listening Lab.

Our Class

This blog has been created for the students and by the students. The postings are student generated and also written by the teacher.

About us
Our class is currently made up of students from 6 different countries. The students hold down jobs and raise families all while attending classes to learn English. Some students want better jobs while others say they just love to learn English and come for the fun of it. They are a kind, generous, smart, dedicated and hard-working group of people. Being their teacher is a blessing- and I love my job! I learn as much as they do, probably more! :)-Heidi Weins

My Teacher
Heidi is the best teacher in our class she has excellent experience. She always is funny and is a very good teacher. She has good ideas when she teaches the class. In my home my son asks me how is your teacher? My teacher is tall, thin, and young. She has blue eyes and brown short hair. She is a fantastic, friendly, pretty, and beautiful teacher.- Ester Duran