I discovered that I will be teaching in both Spanish and English. Something that I was not even slightly prepared for. So now I'm sufficiently nervous, considering my Spanish is incredibly rusty. (Side story: I told one of the teachers at school "I'm sorry if I'm not making sense, my Spanish is a bit rusty," and he LAUGHED at me!! He told me how funny the word "rusty" is to him and how when he studied in Ireland, he was told that his English was "rusty" and he just thinks that word is the weirdest.) Anyway, school is completely different here than in the US. To start, school begins at 9 am and it ends at 2 pm. 2 PM!! I have been so used to getting to school at 7:15 and staying until 4ish...that this is going to be odd. Very nice, but odd. I will be with each of the 6 "English" teachers (I use the adjective "English" fairly lightly haha) for about one week each. I start this week with the first grade class. THEY ARE ADORABLE!! And they love English! The first thing they did when I walked into the classroom was said (altogether) "Good morning. How are you?" So I said, "I'm good, thank you. How are you?" They replied, "Fine, thank you very much, and you?" I LOVE IT! Totally scripted, but so cute. They were so proud of themselves, and I was so happy to be able to have that little experience. All of the teachers were so sweet, and seemed excited to meet me. I hope they could tell that I was excited to meet them, too! I'm sure I looked a little glossy-eyed, though. They all speak so quickly and I was apologizing left and right for my slowness. I'm hoping that tomorrow is smoother, though I can't say for sure. I almost feel like tomorrow will be harder because they were all taking it easy on me, more or less, since it was my first day. haha
In other news, I took a siesta! I definitely didn't want to get out of bed, though. I'm still working on making my body change to Spain time. After my nap, I went to Supermercado El Arbol with 2 of the girls.
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