Happy :)

I am so happy that I was placed in the school that I was. They are absolutely great and I leave everyday feeling accomplished. After the initial months of feeling out of place and unsure, I now feel very confident in all of my classrooms and feel more and more comfortable outside of the classroom. I am not worried about approaching any of the teachers in my school with any problems or questions. I also now feel more comfortable with going up and chatting during the break with the teachers.
This week at school the students took their second round of exams in English class. I think that the students may have done better on these exams than the first ones. Although there was less time spent on this unit, the students are more used to having me in the classroom and listening to the way I speak. I think this will help them pass their exams with better grades than the previous unit.

In my 6th grade class, we did a Twas the Night Before Christmas Mad Lib.  I first had to explain what a Mad Lib was and they got the point that the story was supposed to be somewhat funny. We filled in the story, then I had them watch a YouTube video of someone reading the actual story. Then as I read them the story we wrote together, they laughed at the funny parts. I was worried they wouldn't understand the story, but they did really well with it. Then they got to do their own Mad Libs with the song Jingle Bells. I sang some of the songs that they made up and it was a great time.

In 2nd grade science, I am teaching about animals. As many of you know, I am not a fan of animals, but I think I am doing pretty well with it. I actually got tripped up the other day by some of the vocabulary because I had no idea what a word meant/how to say it. The words were viviparous and oviparous. This basically means whether the babies are born from the womb or eggs. First of all, I had to learn this and second of all, I feel that it is a little unnecessary to be teaching such large terms to 2nd graders. Oh well...

This weekend was a blast. We had a visitor in, Jackie, who is Bridget's friend from Penn State. She is teaching English in Cadiz and wanted to come see Sevilla for the weekend. We wanted to show her around to all of the cool places, so we took her to our favorite bar Antiguidades on Friday night. The bartenders there are our friends so they were excited to see us there again. Then on Saturday, we did some shopping and I got some gifts for people. Afterward, we went to Los Coloniales for dinner with my friend Anna who is from Latvia. Even though we had to wait an hour to get seated, the food was just as delicious as always. Afterward we went to our friends Sam and Clarissa's apartment. Anna was leaving to go meet her boyfriend at a bar, so we all joined her and ended up having an amazing time dancing and hanging out.