EIL Intercultural Learning

Denis Ahern is an accountant from Co. Cork. In 2006 Denis spent 5 months teaching in the Escuela San Francisco in Santa Fe, Argentina.

I arrived here with a very basic knowledge of the Spanish Language, so at the beginning teaching in the school was quite a challenge. But the other teachers in the school really made this challenge a lot easier through their warm and friendly approach. The children in the school have also been amazing helping me feel at home... My experience of life in Escuela San Francisco has been quite a different type of challenge for me. Normally I can express myself in English when I work with children but here, I have to get my point across in a mixture of actions and broken Spanish but for the children here it makes no difference how I speak or where I'm from as long as I'm willing to laugh and have fun!

Denis Ahern