Friday, Oct 9th

Fridays are my busy days, but it went pretty well today. This week had gone by fast surprisingly and we have a three day weekend to look forward to. We don’t have any big plans yet, so we’ll see how the weekend pans out. Today at lunch, Laura Beth, Jacki and I were at the lunch table and Jacki had this book she was reading out on the table with a page open. Some of LB’s 6th grade girls came over and starting talking to us and asked what book she was reading. Well it was open and so they started reading some of it and one of the phrases was “He’s got it goin’ on.” So they read it and were like what does that mean? So we told them and then they started practicing it. We would say “He’s got it goin on” and then they would repeat it and then we would say it some attitude and they would try to do it and it was hilarious. The girls saw us later and were like, “ Miss…He’s got it goin on!” Oh the joy of learning English haha.

One of my boys, Alvaro (who may have slight ADD) did not get out the things I asked him to take out for subjects so it would take him double the time because he would get distracted or talk and then when we were ready to start, I would see he hadn’t taken out anything. I was getting frustrated with him so I took him out in the hallway and was like, “Alvaro, when I tell you to get out something you need to get it out so we can start. You should not talk, you need to listen.” So I don’t know…it was just frustrating. And then during language, one of my girls, Claudia, got stung in the face by a bee. So she started crying and I took her to the office and she got some ice for it.

Kirsty, one of the other American teachers, had been living in town, but lately she’s been dissatisfied with her experience there so this weekend she’s moving up to Villa Verde! She’s so excited to move up here and we are too. She’s going to live in the house Jacki and Sarah were originally going to live in because it’s fixed up now. Now all the teachers are going to be up in the mountains, with Ana and Julia by the school and the rest of us in Villa Verde. We made a huge batch of stir fry for the 5 of us and then had our normal after dinner chatting and joking. Mr. Bran stopped by for the evening to hang out with us and Gustavo, the guy Sarah likes, came up in the mototaxi unexpectedly. We decided to play Uno and invited Gustavo’s brother, who was just sitting outside in the mototaxi, to play. He was only about 14 and his hair was done like Jimmy Neutron, no joke. But I think he had fun after we explained the game in Spanish to him.