First Day of Spring
That's right, I've made it to springtime! Nowadays I have more complex concerns than living from day to day without freezing to death : )
Things have been kinda slow since getting back from La serena. I was really exhausted after the trip and I'm fighting off getting the cold that everyone in my host family has had, so I've been kind of tired out and down. I also had to read 450 pages in Spanish for a test that was this afternoon. It was on two books, Hijo de Hombre by Bastos and El reino de este mundo by Carpentier. Hijo de hombre was actually really good, I would highly recommend it! The test was so awful though...12 essay questions in 3.5 hours. Ughh I just want to go to sleep now!
Christian has his thesis presentation today, and he passed. Everyone was very worried about it, since the panel is apparently very strict and tough graders. It was a struggle for Erika to afford the suit for him to wear to it, and on top of that she was worried she wouldn't be able to pay for him to repeat the program if he didn't pass. But thankfully this isn't an issue since he did a great job and got a 90% on it.
I went to the highschool for the third time today. I can't remember if I've written this before, but anyways its an all-boys technical highschool and I'm working as an assistant in for one of the English teachers. Today one of the boys brought me candy and said to me "Jou arre de loub of mai life." 13-year old Don Juans are funny : )
The principal at this school told me that the best way to motivate the kids and get them to speak English was to pretend I didn't speak Spanish...after two weeks of pretending I didnt' understand hundreds of inappropriate comments made by horny, impolite teenage boys, I decided I needed a new tactic. So today after after one little devil made a comment I turned on him and gave him a piece of my mind in spanish. It was pretty funny to see how shocked and embarassed he was. Once word gets out that I speak Spanish, things should go better. Anyhow today we worked on dictation and listening comprehension. It was kind of cool to see Carola (the teacher) using all the tecniques that Antonio and Esteban used to teach me Spanish to teach these kids English. Carola left the room for ten minutes or so to make photocopies, leaving me in charge of the class of boys that we privately call "los diablos." I managed to keep them all in their seats and no one killed anyone else during my watch, so I'm counting it as a successful teaching experience.
Things have been kinda slow since getting back from La serena. I was really exhausted after the trip and I'm fighting off getting the cold that everyone in my host family has had, so I've been kind of tired out and down. I also had to read 450 pages in Spanish for a test that was this afternoon. It was on two books, Hijo de Hombre by Bastos and El reino de este mundo by Carpentier. Hijo de hombre was actually really good, I would highly recommend it! The test was so awful though...12 essay questions in 3.5 hours. Ughh I just want to go to sleep now!
Christian has his thesis presentation today, and he passed. Everyone was very worried about it, since the panel is apparently very strict and tough graders. It was a struggle for Erika to afford the suit for him to wear to it, and on top of that she was worried she wouldn't be able to pay for him to repeat the program if he didn't pass. But thankfully this isn't an issue since he did a great job and got a 90% on it.
I went to the highschool for the third time today. I can't remember if I've written this before, but anyways its an all-boys technical highschool and I'm working as an assistant in for one of the English teachers. Today one of the boys brought me candy and said to me "Jou arre de loub of mai life." 13-year old Don Juans are funny : )
The principal at this school told me that the best way to motivate the kids and get them to speak English was to pretend I didn't speak Spanish...after two weeks of pretending I didnt' understand hundreds of inappropriate comments made by horny, impolite teenage boys, I decided I needed a new tactic. So today after after one little devil made a comment I turned on him and gave him a piece of my mind in spanish. It was pretty funny to see how shocked and embarassed he was. Once word gets out that I speak Spanish, things should go better. Anyhow today we worked on dictation and listening comprehension. It was kind of cool to see Carola (the teacher) using all the tecniques that Antonio and Esteban used to teach me Spanish to teach these kids English. Carola left the room for ten minutes or so to make photocopies, leaving me in charge of the class of boys that we privately call "los diablos." I managed to keep them all in their seats and no one killed anyone else during my watch, so I'm counting it as a successful teaching experience.
posted by Julia | 6:09 PM
1 Comments:
I would be interested to hear about your very next visit to the boys school! ( in regard to the newly acknowledged understanding of Spanish!) G'ma
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