My goal for the weekend had been to rest. And boy-oh-boy did I successfully accomplish that!
I set my alarm for 1pm (yes, I had to SET it for the afternoon... because I knew I wouldn't be waking up until late afternoon if left to my own devices), showered and hopped on the bus to my Spanish family's house. I missed my bus stop (as I was just so engrossed in my solitaire game) and the bus drive laughed at me. It irrationally upset me and instead of waiting the five minutes for his break and for him to turn around the bus, I told him I'd just walk. He honked at me as he drove past me as I was still walking home. Ugh.
But an afternoon eating and lounging on the couch watching a movie in Spanish and drinking tea and chocolate shakes with cookies was just what I needed to refuel for the week. At the end of the afternoon Cruz taught Jen (their current American student) and me how to make gazpacho with a hands-on lesson in the kitchen! We felt like we were in the audience of a new Spanish cooking program! Haha. :) Cruz made making gazpacho seem like the easiest thing in the whole wide world and made me feel sort of silly for so royally screwing it up when I'd tried this summer to do it on my own. She put some of it in a to-go container for me to take home for my dinner and I was on my way home.
I spent the evening watching last night's SNL with Abby and attempting to figure out how-oh-how to organize my first tutoring session with my two new students. I have them tomorrow night for the first time ever - 45 minutes a piece - and after four hours of research, still have absolutely NO idea what I'll do with them when I get there. Like, literally. I guess I'll try to have them introduce themselves (if they even can? I have no idea what their level is)... maybe draw a picture of themselves with their friends doing something they like? Then have them try to explain it to me. Then we'll go over the alphabet in English by trying to make the letters first with our bodies, then with our hands (American Sign Language). Then maybe take a look at their science books and see what they don't understand from the past week and look over what they'll see this week? Jeeze, I don't know. All that could take ten minutes or it could take two hours. EEEEEeeeekkkkkk.
At least I have my primary classes prepared and ready to go. First dry-run will be tomorrow's class. We're going to color in the US Flag, Look at a map of the US, and learn the 50 Nifty United States song. :oD We'll see how that turns out... LOL.
It's past midnight and all I know is I'm seriously going to need some beauty sleep if I'm going to have any chance of remotely succeeding tomorrow at teaching 6-8 year olds on my own. o_O I wonder if any of these teachers/parents/kids have any idea that I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing and what I'm getting myself into? Meh. All I know is I'm way sillier and more childish than any of these kids' teachers are... so that has to earn me a few points up front? I hope... ;oP
XOXO
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