March 2, 2010-03-03
We are finishing our sixth day at Colegio Letort. jSo far, Beth and I are just observing and planning some lessons. We will both be teaching about 12 classes each week. My clases are spread out evenly throughout the week, but Beth has only 1 class every other week on Mondays and Tuesdays. I am teaching English to 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders, while Beth teaches the same to 4th, 5th and 6th graders. We`re both ready to work, we´re getting a bit bored.
Max and Jane are enrolled in the school full time. Both complain, but I think that they are beinning to adjust. It`s harder for Max because he is fairly introverted and he doesn´t like making mistakes. He´s just going to have to suck it up, because we´re here now, and he has not choice. Beth and I can already tell that both of them are learning Spanish although they could not admit it.
I was interviewed by two sixth grade students today for an article in the school newspaper. Their English is good, and they giggled a lot during the interview. They are going to take a family picture tomorrow to go along with the article. Kids come up to Beth and me during recess just to speak English with us. They smile shyly and creep up to initiate conversation. It`s very cute. The students also follow Max and Jane around. Believe it or not, but the Scandos from Minnesota are quite exotic here at Letort. We`re a bit like rock stars
Everybody here has been kind and generous to us. I´ve been invited to join the 6th grade Spanish Lanaguage class so that I can learn and study Spanish here at school when I`m not teaching. Beth and I were judges in a Books I Read speech contest for 7th, 8th and 9th graders. The particdipants were great and the whole affair was quite impressive and formal. Parents of the winners thanked us again, and again, we were treated like rock stars. The schoool has provided busing for us each day so we don´t have to travel all the way across town to get here. Beth and I are also given a lunch each day. The people here have been going out of their way to make us feel comfortable. We are so lucky.
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I have always thought that the Iversons were like rock stars.
ReplyDeleteThere is a free lunch then! And busing too! Best of all is Spanish class. I think I would be in about the third grade. If they were to begin the subjunctive then.
ReplyDeleteTell Max and Jane they can teach me when they get back.
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I think that is a good idea. I am going to see if I can sit in on a 3rd grade Spanish class.
ReplyDeletejust to clarify, we are far from bored here, but we have to stay at school all day because of busing and the kids so that part gets long when not teaching. bruce and i have found a columbian coffee place to take a break. they now greet us with recognition.
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