Spanish teachers course, Nepal, teaching Spanish in a Buddhist temple<

Spanish teachers course, Nepal, teaching Spanish in a Buddhist temple

My name is Alen Silva. I did Instituto Hemingway´s online Spanish teachers course. After doing the required classes and assessments I went to do a Masters in documentary film in Buenos Aires where I combined my film classes with a job teaching Spanish to foreigners.

I applied all the methodology that I learned on the course and I think that most of what I learnt has served me well in the classroom and that my students learn the course content in a entertaining, fun and continuous way.

After a year in Argentina I went to Nepal to make a documentary on some Tibetan Lamas that live in a Monastery. Such was the level of connection with these people that I was able to combine filming with the job of English teacher with the Rinpoche (the highest level of Lama) and Spanish teacher with younger monks two times per week.

I have to say that this experience and seeing how the monks applied themselves to learning Spanish through games, songs etc...was very rewarding.
I like to think that during this year-long stay in Nepal, the monks ended up understanding words, phrases, and conversations in Spanish.

I end this memory with an anecdote of a Buddhist Monastery where everyone ended-up saying goodbye in Tibetan and Spanish .

Thank you Instituto Hemingway for having given me the opportunity to have these experiences.

The documentary that I am doing and that I filmed in Nepal is called "The flowers of Dingri" and one can see the trailers on Youtube.