This week starts my first full week of normal classes. The two school I teach at have determined my schedule. I will be at Emilia Olivares on Mondays and Thursdays and at Felix Plaza Ramos on Tuesday and Wednesday. I have different jobs at each school but both are fine. At Felix Plaza Ramos I feel like I do less. The teachers are in charge of lesson planning and exchange the directions. Normally, I lead the activites and ask the questions and play the games in English. The kids are excited to meet an American because most of the English speakers they meet are from England. I feel like I repeat myself a lot. At Emilia Olivares, the teacher also explains the directions but I go around and correct mistakes and check workbooks. I have begun a little to explain the directions in English. I think that eventually I will end up teaching the classes. I think I would prefer this anyway because sometimes the English of the teachers is painful and a lot of time is spent just sitting. But the kids are excited to ask for help from me and I am excited to give it. It is fun to see them learning.
Right now at both schools we're learning animals, how to describe people, family members, foods, and hobbies. The curriculum we have is from Oxford so the CD's are in British English. Some kids have trouble understanding my English because I have an American accent. This is understandable. I have trouble understanding them in Spanish because they have a Malaqueno accent.
Soon I will do a presentation on Halloween. This is exciting because Independence has the one and only Neewollah. I am excited to show the kids how the states does Halloween because here they don't celebrate it. One of the teachers is going to dress up and asked if I want to too. Of course I do! I'm going to buy a costume from the China shop! Hopeully, I will have a chance to do lots of presentations on the US. Our cultures are very different and now that I am here, the differences are very prevalent.
I'm sorry I haven't been updating very frequently. I will try to do better in the future.
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