Eek! I am procrastinating lesson planning for my 3 o'clock class by writing about how awesome the first two hours of my new job were this morning. It was raining and nasty at 6:45 AM walking to Maximo Nivel faster than was safe because I was running late... It's so easy to want to sleep in when I live in a cave for a bedroom, that and I was out a little later than I planned last night, oops. I'll come back to that. I almost slipped several times walking down the street, it was quite a spectacle, me in tights, a skirt, hiking books, and a rain jacket with my bookbag stuffed underneath. Not the ideal look for the first day of school... I got to Maximo at 6:55 and ran up to the teachers lounge to unload and change into my cute shoes, wasted some time because I lost my keys to my locker, and then had to grab some Mate de Coca because my first class is in the basement, where it's cold, plus I'm addicted to the stuff. I'm sipping on my third cup today and it's only 10 AM. All in all I was only a minute late, and then proceeded to sit and review the text for the next week because no learners showed up. I don't feel so rejected since the classes to the right and left of mine only had one or two learners show up, respectively. So much for taking three days for a reading... Hopefully tomorrow there might be some learners for my Intermediate 1 class. I'm a substitute at 8AM, but that means I'm either taking over a class, working in the office, or sitting at the Tutor Table in the main lounge/lobby. I did the latter today and had fun goofing off with the resident Tutor. We didn't have anybody to need tutoring until right before 9, and then the table filled up... But I peaced out. I don't have class again until 3, but it's my favorite level: Alto Basico, which is three months of English under their belt. I haven't planned yet, but I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun! Wish me luck...
I'm also teaching two classes of Basico Nuevo, which is the first level, it should be interesting. I'll probably be ready for Trivia night by the time 8 PM rolls around, but at this point in the day I have yet to be jaded by my class schedule.
Back to the bar situation from last night, I went with several people to this Peruvian bar that you need an "in" to be able to enter. Luckily one of the members of our group was a Peruvian and so we were acceptable. It was a lot of fun, we just hung out sipping 1.5 Liter Pilsner beers out of little juice cups. It was a trip. The perfect way to end a day of soccer! That was another trip, this woman called me an animal at one point trying to enter the stadium fifteen minutes before the game was supposed to start. And this man in front of us was pulled out by the national guard that was security (incase of rioting... awesome.) because he or his son threw a bag of water and it landed on the police securing one of the stadium entrances. That was fun. The game was incredible, there were so many people, and a lot of fireworks and streamers and water balloons being thrown at the goalies of the opposing team and the guards standing between the stands and the field. The score was 1-1 only because of penalty shots, but there was some intense falls and fancy footwork, and the crowd was a lot of fun to spy on. All in all yesterday's plan of lesson planning turned into something much more enjoyable.
ciao.
1 comment:
You procrastinating? Running late, that can't be. Wanting to sleep in, AW C'MON!!! Yea, it was the bedroom's fault, way too....ah...cavelike. Yea.....that's the ticket, it was....too-ah-cavelike.....yea... that's it. Sweetie, all jokes aside, I really enjoy your posts.
Love you!
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