Alright…go ahead and add rain to the cold and wind of yesterday! Though it’s rained several times since I’ve been here, it’s always been on the weekend or at night when I’ve had a choice to leave the house, so I haven’t really cared. NOT TODAY! I heard the drops smacking down on the pavement as I was getting ready and I have to tell you…I wasn’t a fan. If it had been just raining, that would have been one thing, but it was windy too and my umbrella kept blowing around!

My first class today was with the three-year-olds. I split the hour between two classes: Julia’s and Angela’s. From what I understand, I’ll pretty much be the English consultant for these classes. Today they sang a “Good Morning” song (in Spanish) and I went back through it and translated it for the class. We also talked about numbers, some colors and the alphabet.

In 5A, we reviewed the food vocab from yesterday and then I told them a story with story cards about a chicken and a fox. To make it a little more fun, I spoke in silly voices for the different characters…I think the kids got a kick out of it—they clapped for me afterwards! Next class was 1B with Esperanza. We did an activity in which the kids had to point to the different pictures based on the descriptions they heard on the CD. After recreo I was with Esperanza again, this time with the five-year-olds. To review colors and facial vocab, we created a “monster” on the board with different color eyes, ears, mouths, arms and legs. Last hour was 6A. I talked about typical food in the US/Nebraska…basically the same “presentation” I prepared for Rocío’s classes.

It had stopped raining by the time I left school (thank goodness!) and I saw earlier that the clouds had turned to semi-blue skies! Before I left school, Aurora said that it’s not supposed to be as cold or rain tomorrow, so I’m banking on that! In other news, the other American finally arrived and we’re meeting him in the plaza tonight at eight for coffee! His name’s Arturo (he’s from California…not sure what part exactly yet) and we’ve emailed a couple of times. I talked with him a couple of hours ago and he seems really nice! I’m glad to have another American here!

Xoxo,

Court