The poor girl. About 5 minutes into it, I could read her thoughts "I just spent 4 years studying so that I could deal with this for the rest of my career?" I think something inside her died today. Just kidding, she was pretty good with them. Better than me, that's for sure! (Although, when she came in and the teacher announced why she was here, one of the kids looked at me and said "Don't worry senorita, you're still the winner because you speak English").
It's just very hard to keep the attention of the whole class, so as Nichole said today, it's surprising that they can learn as much as they do. Raising your hand to speak isn't really a thing here. They just shout at you. If you tell them to raise their hand, they shout at you with their hand in the air. It's hard to keep them all sitting down in their desk, too, and if you get more than a 10 second block of silence (by silence, I mean they're talking low enough so that I don't have to shout for them to hear me) it's a miracle.
So props to all the teachers here. I know I couldn't do it.
After school I went to the university for my meeting with Michelle, one of the ISA directors. It's just a check-in to make sure everything's going well with school and the family and everything. Of course I told her everything is going awesome because I really have nothing to complain about!
Since I got up at 6:30 this morning, have to get up at 6:30 again tomorrow morning, and am going out to Help! again tonight, I'm thinking it's time for an afternoon nap.
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