I’m officially staying in Spain for another year!!! I got word yesterday that I’d been placed at my same school again and I accepted right away! Arturo got his email as well and he’s staying here too! Will hasn’t gotten his yet, because he made a mistake on his application and his has been delayed a bit, but I don’t doubt his email will come…so we’ll all be together again! WOOT!

Today, I started talking about Saint Patrick’s Day and will continue to do so tomorrow and Thursday! The only thing I don’t like about going to the three-year-old classes is that sometimes it’s hard (like today, when I had planned a special activity) to talk with them. Neither Julia nor Ángela speak English and so I was trying to explain a really simple history of St. Patrick to them in Spanish and it was really hard! I got through I short little history and then I had found this leprechaun song (sung to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”), but then I like totally forgot the words, so we didn’t do that…next week, when I have it memorized!

It was more St. Patrick’s stuff with 5A and 6A (second and fifth hours). I found this easy PowerPoint that explained the history, symbols and things like that. It was only six slides but it took like the whole hour in both classes, because I would stop for María José and Pilar to explain things in Spanish. The last slide talked about popular Irish last names and of course I added GILROY to the list! How could I not?! I even bolded it and put stars around it! Some of the kids were like “Why is that one bigger and starred?” “Uhh, only cuz like the best name EVER!!!”

In 1B we talked more about animals from their zoo unit. I asked them what each animal was and what color it was. Some of them are really smart and good at English and knew all the answers right away! Then they had to color the pictures of the animals exactly as the examples appeared.

Five years A was really restless today. We sang the “Hello” and “What’s the Weather Like” songs and that was about it. I was going to review some vocab with them, but they wouldn’t sit still or quietly long enough to do so. In the end, Espe explained a worksheet about the number eight, in which they had to draw in different numbers of spots on cows to equal the number. Like three minutes later it was time to go.

I went to the store again on my way home, because I couldn’t get everything I wanted yesterday. I still want to get a six pack of milk, but that’s like super heavy and when I buy that, I can buy little else, in order to make the walk home possible. So I’ll probably go back again in the next couple of days! Oh, the Spanish lifestyle…

Xoxo,

Court