Last night I stayed up and sort of helped Will make chocolate chip cookies, Oreo balls and two pumpkin pies that he brought to school today. It was after one when I finally go to bed and I didn’t get up this morning right when my alarm went off…I slept for another 15 minutes! I was so tired when I first got up, but after I started moving around, I was fine (although now I’m kind of feeling it!).

I had the three-year-olds first and with them I talked about some really basic vocab and then taught them the song “Hello, Mr. Turkey, how are you? Hello, Mr. Turkey, how are you? With a gobble, gobble, gobble and a wobble, wobble, wobble, Hello, Mr. Turkey, how are you?” It’s sung to the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it”. That was all we had time for, since I split the hour between the two classes. 5A was after that and we started with the vocab, then talked about the PowerPoint, sang another song to the tune of “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” and ended with one of the worksheets that was already in the stash of Thanksgiving activities. We didn’t have time for the food pictures, so we’ll talk about that next week.

1B was next and after the initial vocab, we did a connect-the-dots-using-numbers-to-finish-drawing-the-pilgrim activity. The numbers went up to 27, and I know they’re only in first grade, but it’s amazing how many kids had trouble connecting numbers in the teens and then some in the twenties. Afterwards, they were to color the pilgrim and that pretty much took the whole time. After class was over, but before Pilar, the student, left, I gave her one of my ten cent bracelets. Her face just lit up so much when I gave it to her and she kept telling people that I gave it to her…who knew such a cheap little bracelet would do so much for a kid?!

We had recreo and our Tuesday bocadillos and then came the five-year-olds. We did vocab, yet another song “I Eat Turkey” sung to the tune of “Frere Jacques” and another simpler coloring sheet (just coloring, no connecting the dots!). They’re usually a good class, but they were pretty noisy today, Esperanza was annoyed with them…so I’m not sure what was up. I ended with 6A and we did the exact same thing as in 5A, minus the worksheet.

Tomorrow is Ciudad Real…again. The bus leaves at 6:45, SWEET! We have to be at the police station at 9:30 to submit photos for our NIEs and then get fingerprinted. I thought we were going to actually be getting the cards tomorrow, but no, (even though the latest email from Juán Ignacio says we will), apparently this is just another step in the process. We have to wait about a month after tomorrow, which means it’ll be after Christmas. Arturo chanced it on Friday and went without an appointment and was able to get everything done that we’ll do tomorrow. What the heck?? So he’s actually ahead of us in the process, which I don’t really understand, since we’ve been here for like a month and a half longer than him. If I would have known they would still see you, even without an appointment, I would have gone like six weeks ago. Heck we did go six weeks ago, our very first trip to CR, the trip that was a total failure, to the police station, and we were told “you can’t do ANYTHING without an appointment”. REALLY? I shouldn’t complain though, at least we’ll be one step closer (I know I said that before) to getting our cards. HOPEFULLY we’ll only have one more trip after tomorrow…I just want the process to be over.  

Xoxo,

Court