Mindfulness and teaching English as a second language within the Immigrant/Refugee Community
By: Leah Qiu “You can come and sit next to me,” Rockistan said, when I join to observe Focus Point’s English as a Second Language (ESL) class. Rockistan immigrated to America from war-torn Syria in 2017 with her husband and two small children and has since given birth to a third child, a baby boy. Unable to complete university in Syria, Rockistan and her husband attend ESL class twice a week. The classroom is lively, the students joke around with Anna Meenan, English Language