January 18 – January 24
Happy Registration Week! That means this is the last week of
vacation for students before school. Teachers are working trying to get
students registered and just doing a lot of paperwork. On Monday, I met my
counterpart’s daughter, who is 11 and very cool. She speaks English very well
and I enjoyed spending much of the morning talking with her. On Wednesday and
Friday, I looked at one of my counterpart’s Grade 4 unit plans and worked on
pulling it back into 1st through 3rd grades and also
looked at English textbooks for 1st and 2nd grade. I
didn’t have a lot to do this week, but I was glad to be there and meet some of
the other teachers.
On Saturday, my host sister and her fiancée came to visit.
We talked for a while and then my host mom and I ended up going with them for
pizza at a nice little busy pizza place around the corner. Hanging out with
them was good, and so was the pizza.
- You will most likely have lots of time for home
improvement projects. Make a list of what you can make better or fix and make
your world happen.
- Coser y Coser is an adorable craft store just off La
Quinta. You’ll have lots of time for craft projects, too, and that’s one of the
best craft stores in town. The people in the store are also helpful when you’re
not sure exactly what you need.
- Mercados Campesinos (farmers’ markets) are everywhere and
probably the best and cheapest places to buy produce. I like the one on
Libertador between my school and Buena Vista, but you can go to a million other
store-like ones and the Centro always had a huge open-air market, too.
- Naps are awesome. People take naps here, usually after
lunch. If you work in the morning, trust me, especially as the weather gets
hotter around midday, you’ll take naps, too. And then you’ll go to bed early
because you have to get up the next day or just don’t want to mess up your
schedule. But isn’t it wonderful that you have the freedom to sleep almost
whenever you want?
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