First full week of school and learning Spanish?
Monday marked the beginning of our first full week at Craighouse School! Time to get stuck in to the routine of school life again!
This week allowed us to get fully involved in school life and also create opportunities for us to teach our new classes. A group of four of us have been given the responsibility of early morning reading sessions every morning for those first graders who have fallen behind. This allowed us to understand the abilities of the children and amaze us with their English skills.
After contributing to the planning of our classes we are now able to begin to plan some sessions of our own.
Next week I'll be starting to teach some phonics lessons to my first grade class. I cannot wait!
Me and Aimee decided to make our bedroom feel a little more homely. We moved the beds around to make the room feel a little bit bigger and then had an addition of some Union Jack Flag bunting.
Wednesday marked our final day with our trip leader and lecturer. So to celebrate and say thank you to him we went out for a meal. Even though this meal tasted great I can't say that our bodies agreed with it, resulting in 6/8 of us getting food poisoning. (Can't say we'll be going back there anytime soon...)
On Thursday 3 of us (including myself) were not well enough to go to school so unfortunately had to miss a day. :(
All better and back to school on Friday and we got to leave just after lunch time as we were going to our first Spanish lessons at the Universidad Los Andes. Here we received a very warm welcome from the international team and were given a tour of the campus. Very pretty as it is a lovely backdrop of the mountains! (And when the smog isn't SOOO bad you can see Santiago).
After a rather long day of being at school then travelling to the University we all went a bit giggley in our Spanish lesson (our professor must think we're mad!).
2 hours of Spanish later, we have now learnt some crucial greetings and how to ask for your mum's last name?? (Don't know when I'll need that one!)
Bring on the long weekend!! Lots of fun things planned!!
Chao for now!
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