It’s 54 and cloudy today. It was a lot warmer earlier, when the sun was out, but now it’s almost completely cloudy and chilly. My weather thing also says we’re currently having intense rain, which we are not…although I did feel a couple of drops on my way home.

Today was fairly easy. I had 6A and C the first two hours. Marilu asked if I could go over the PowerPoint and other things while she helped other kids finish homework they hadn’t gotten done (she was a little ticked!) The first hour all but two were finishing activities, so it was kinda weird only teaching to two of them. The materials I thought would be suitable for them turned out to be a little over their heads (I didn’t want to give them something to easy, though, you know?) so they didn’t understand a lot of it and Marilu was helping the others, so I was pretty much on my own and it more or less bombed. Sort of a shame too because I thought they were awesome activities (I mean they are, but for American kids). Second hour was more of the same, so I was glad to get out of there at eleven!

I went to 4A third hour, they’re learning (or kind of at least…as much as 4^th level can learn) about the verb “to like” so they wrote all the forms down—I/you like…—but they always have to talk and fight though, so something that simple takes half an hour, literally. Analen has told me in the past that almost no one does their homework. They took an exam last week and only FIVE of them passed…we’re talking of a class of at least twenty! Yeah, they’re quite a bunch of winners; although to their credit, they’re not as bad as the other class.

              Last two were the three-year-olds. After all of our greetings and songs they drew a picture of themselves well some of them did, others scribbled inside the set lines, others outside and others still started coloring whatever page they felt like. I was walking around trying to help where I could and this one little cutie looked at me and was like “Look! He drew outside the lines—that’s wrong!” So adorable…too bad fourth level isn’t more like them…

I’ve got the eight/nine-year-olds at five. I planned several things out before I left for the weekend, so we should be good to go! I’m going to try to stay on top of the ball and stay and plan after class every night. It should go smoothly; I should never have to throw something together right before—that’s the plan, anyway.

Xoxo,

Court