January 19, 2007
On January 19, Steve and Suzie Winham and Bob and Jan Towell traveled to La Paz, Mexico to set up an Internet Café program for teaching the WEI Beginner’s English Course in Spanish.
Jonathan Towell and Colby Blaisdale, both recent graduates of Harding University in Information Technology, are constructing the website needed for Spanish Internet teaching. Lessons are being loaded onto the website and tested, and it is hoped that students in La Paz can start using the website soon.
Bob reports that “interest in the Beginner’s English Course in Spanish is very great in La Paz. A total of 45 people attended the WEI Beginner’s English course conducted in Spanish, while only five people were ready for WEI’s basic course conducted in English.”
Presently, Steve and Suzie are WEI’s only bilingual teachers. The new website will help them handle the La Paz students, but as we expand to other cities, additional bilingual teachers will be needed.
