School
School is a lot of fun
Taking Spanish classes
To fill out Maggie’s stories of our adventure to Guatemala, I thought I’d spend a bit of time explaining the nuts and bolts of what on Earth Maggie and I are doing! 😝 So if you have heard me speak Spanish you know I’m a hot mess. 🙄 So Dan and I decided to send me to an immersion Spanish school. Long story short, we decided to come to Guatemala. Dan and Will are super busy in the month of…
part 2
Sorry I did not post yesterday. I was really busy. Yesterday I went to class at 7: 30. At school I and the teacher made a coin purse. Then after we went to the Macadamia nut farm. The tour was OK but we had to stay inside for most of the time because it was raining.
Memes
Today I will tell you about cat memes. Cat memes are popular but some times you will not get it because you have not seen the show, movie or the thing it is referring to. See below to look at the memes. That is it see you later!
Guatemala
This summer me and my mom came to Guatemala. We have only been here for a few days and I can tell it is gonna be lots of fun! Today we went to Spanish school from 8 to 12. It was fun and I learned some new words. After school me and my mama came to the person we are staying with house and had lunch. Then we went to the center of the town and got ice creme. We…
Nabulsi Trekking with Will
The schools here have an unusual finals schedule where all the children (K-12) attend school for 1/2 days for two weeks, taking one final exam per day. I don’t know how much you remember about 2nd and 4th grade, but rigorous final exams usually aren’t part of the mix. Since these are pretty much down weeks for Will, as he’s not needing to study much (he’s not taking the Arabic language finals), I checked him out of school early on…
Online Teaching Wrapup
The past few weeks have been a whirlwind with all of the end-of-semester activities. Regular readers know that as the Fulbright spouse (that’s a thing, right?) on this adventure, I’ve been remotely teaching my college courses back in Mississippi. I’m so grateful that my college gave me this opportunity as there aren’t many institutions who would have allowed such flexibility! Teaching my courses remotely has been wonderful, but not without its own unique set of challenges. Now that the last…
How many students are in this class???
When you arrive at a school for your first visit, usually someone will become your sponsor and walk you around. They will introduce you to the principal, all the English teachers and find classes for you to visit. Meeting with a principal is always interesting because there is the expected sit down and chat (How do you like it here? Oh, so your children are here! What school do they go to? Are you doing ok?) which eventually moves to…
To Future Fulbrighters
Last week, I tallied up the school visits I have been able to accomplish. So far, it looks like I have had 18 visits to 5 different schools. I was able to teach a sample lesson at 1 school already and I have 1 more this week. I feel like an old pro at school visits. It was tough getting permission to visit schools at first. I mentioned before that since I am only the 2nd group of Fulbright DATs…
I miss teaching
Teachers will understand this. There are a lot of feelings associated with teaching. For example: Then there are the first day of school Pinterest photos showing the utopia of teaching. What I miss though is the day to day because I really *like* teaching. I avoided this career. I come from a family of teachers. I mean EVERYONE is a teacher (mom, 3 aunts, grandmother, multiple cousins of all generations, you get the picture). My dad was planning on being a…