December 4th

Today was the first day of our independant teaching. (Until now we have been assisting Christine in her classes, which was a great way to start off, but we wanted to do more.) We all felt that the kids would benefit from having an additional hour of English each week, so Ben and I are designing a conversation class to supplement Christine´s general English class. Our first conversation is ¨Introductions¨. Today we worked with the third graders and it went well considering it was our first day. We gave our first class of third graders a writing task that was way too hard, so the second class received the benefits our mistake in a toned-down lesson. It´s kind of an experiment for us (maybe guess and check is more descriptive, experiment sounds a little refined), not having taught much in a classroom before, nevermind in a different language, but we´re learning. Luckily for us, Christine is very generous with her teaching knowledge.

This evening we experienced our first storm; thunder, lightening and rain. Very exciting, but over in a little more than an hour. Ben took a picture of the street from our balcony, the discoloration in the sky is from the lightening. With this rain hopefully the flowers and green will stay a little longer!