Yesterday (Sunday) nothing worthy of noting occurred. It was a usual Sunday. Saturday night, in an attempt to save what was left of my voice, I left the bar about 1:30 and came home to take some cough medicine. At least I wasn’t as squeaky as Friday! My voice is so much better today! It’s not 100 percent yet…but I think it’s on its way!

Today was the first Monday I’ve worked. I didn’t have the not-so-uncommon Monday “blues”, but rather the I’m-dreading-the-winter-because-I’m-not-a-fan-of-the-cold “blues”. Goodnight-stick, it was chilly this morning! It made for a brisk walk to school, at least…I got there at 8:55, before several of the teachers. I had sixth grade first and they’re learning a little bit about the circulatory system in English, so I was able to read several excerpts from their books with them. I had second grade next and apparently I had never been to that class before, which I didn’t realize, so it was more with introductions and asking me questions. Next was third grade, which I had never been to either…at least I knew that much. I met Lourdes, the teacher, and again, it was more introductions and questions. We did those for half the time and the other time was spent doing some workbook: unscrambling words like tree/grass/flowers and then coloring in the pictures, then naming the animal that lives in the grass/tree/flowers.

Right after recreo I had a free hour (one of two I have during the week, the other is on Thursday, the last hour of the day) so I went and looked up some pictures of Nebraska and typical American food dishes, i.e. hamburgers, ribs, steak, corn on the cob, deviled eggs, potato salad, hotdogs, etc…, that that’ll be handy for the little spiel I’m giving to one of RocÍo’s classes tomorrow.

The last hour of the day I to a different third grade class with Lourdes. Again, I had never been there before so yet even more introductions followed. When I walked home, it was still quite chilly in the shade, so I made sure to walk in the sun. I went to the store and grabbed some more fruit, bread and milk before returning home. I had a bocadillo and a peach for lunch. I’m still a little cold, so I just made a cup of tea. As for afterwards, though, I see a short rest in my future!

Xoxo,

Court