My summer ‘job’ was working as a tutor at English-learning summer camps in Italy with an organization called ACLE. They coordinate camps all over Italy, but mostly in the north. Most are 1 or 2 weeks long, and tutors usually stay with a host family at each camp. ACLE’s style is to teach English through games, songs, and drama. They create all of their own material, so they want tutors to be adept at working with it. That’s why they have a week-long orientation before tutors can start working in camps. The orientation I went to took place on a golf course, near a town called Castellaro, near San Remo on Italy’s northwest coast. Orientation week was a difficult time for an introvert like me, where almost every moment consisted of small talk, games, singing songs,
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