Back to School

So I've had four days of classes and I looooove my students.  They are all fairly young and really respectful.  I have to very basic classes and one intermediate.  I just tell them I'm learning Spanish while you're learning English so we can help each other.  Hopefully they won't take advantage of me too much!

I've only had four days of classes, BUT, I've commuted to get there 12 hours this week already!  It takes about 1hr 15 min. to get to my school, which is in a bad part of town.  I haven't felt unsafe at all yet, but I wouldn't want to be alone around the area at night.  

The things my students know is hilarious.  I asked them for words they knew in English or other things like that, and they always surprise me.  They do try really hard though, I think they can tell I'm struggling with speaking Spanish so its ok for them to struggle as well.

My boss quit yesterday.  There are coordinators at each site for the English classes and mine quit!  As if we weren't confused enough on the first day of class, now we have no idea who to ask!  We're just trying to scrape by these first few weeks.  Books don't come for the Basic classes until the beginning of April, and we don't have any idea what the curriculum is for intermediate because they're revising the whole program.

Other than that, everything is great!  Chelsea and I haven't started apartment searching yet, but we are going to soon.  Next week is la semana santa (holy week) so that will be very interesting being in a very catholic country.  Hopefully I get a ton of school off, we don't know the calendar yet.  

Chao!