Thursday, November 19

I had meeting with the administration today about how I’m doing in my classroom and how I was teaching. Good news! They said that I’m doing a good job, that I just needed to make sure to keep up the work in books for all the kids, to get to this lesson by end of parcial. Mr. Lara also told me he was going to take my math class to give me more time to correct things for 5th grade, which is great and surprising. I asked him why math and he was like ‘Miss I’m much better at math and than language or anything like that.’ I kinda laughed and was like ‘Well thanks.’ He and his wife are great and they just told us they’re staying til June instead of leaving in January. I’m so thankful for that because I would not have felt as comfortable at this school without them here. He’s the only bilingual administrator; Ana and Mrs. Lopez are the only other two Honduran teachers who are bilingual. I just think if you have a bilingual school and teachers from the states who may or may not speak Spanish, it just makes sense to have at least one bilingual administrator. I can understand Mr. Calderon usually, but to talk to him about some things, it’s just easier to do it in English. We had tutorias after school; I had my kids make flashcards with their reading vocabulary so they can learn it. I think they really liked that, so maybe I’ll try it more often. They seem to be learning better with them. We had Bible study with Mrs. Laurelais again tonight, which is always an experience. I do admire and enjoy her wisdom and her passion for God, like I said its just very intense that’s all. She talked about Jesus being our mediator and why he had to die and the tabernacle and all that stuff. It was kinda all over the place so to retell it to others would be impossible. It’s kinda hard to keep a straight face all the time because she does this thing with her eyebrows putting them up and down really quickly, so sometimes I have to stifle a laugh haha.