aiy senor

The beginning of an era blog…aka beginning of the school year….
Rendida! Or worn out! Even though we don’t put in nearly as many teaching hours as our counterparts, I find myself well worn by the end of most days. Even though school has been “in session” for 2 weeks, the schedule is still changing and classes are still added and dropped….mainly because kids can still enroll until April……it’s fun (-: I have given up on everything making sense or ever staying the same, and am trying to focus on making myself consistent. (The one thing I can control).
In other news, there is a group of students visiting here from the states as part of a church group and tomorrow I will accompany them to a nearby community to look at a latrine project they have out there. Supposedly, I will also get to help translate some. The group is small but fantastic—and they have done a few things here already like paint the Casa Materna, hand out food bags, and play with the neighborhood kids.
My schedule for now is something like this
Monday- take a bus at 10am—arrive in nearby community to teach at 11am…wait an hour for class to start ( unfortunately there is no other bus I can take…) Teach from 12-415 or 445, this is uncertain still. Take bus back at 430 or 5---I am home by around 530. I had my first go at this today and I am super tired.
Tuesday—my one free day!!!! For now….except tomorrow I will be with the church group from 1-530 or so….and maybe will be starting up another English community group in the afternoon…..LAUNDRY day!
Weds—I teach from 7-12 at my other school that is actually in my town. I try to plan for our adult community English class on Weds. afternoon.
Thursday—something like teach from 7-10 30 in town, then I meet and co-plan with a professor for a couple hours for the University class I co-teach
Friday—teach 8-10:30, often there are teacher meetings that take up the last couple hours of class and I go to those to until 12. Then I co-plan with a different professor for 2-4 hours. THEN Matt and I have our adult community English class from 6-8pm. Usually when Friday night rolls around I am beat.
Saturday- Mornings I have free for now! I try to go to the market/stock up on household things we may need/check my email. Then in the afternoon I spend a couple hours co=planning with my third counterpart.
Sunday- Co-teach in the University from 10-12ish….matt has a class from 12-2, sometimes I stay to observe.
So that, for now, is sort of what my week looks like. I try to do my laundry every other day, since things just take a little longer by hand etc (-: and maybe cook some meals in advance when I have a gap in time, since cooking takes awhile too. (the danger there is that the power will go out and all that food will go bad!!!)
Our sitemate leaves soon, and we will miss her dearly!!!! They are going to send a new person in her place, but we won’t meet them until they arrive in the end of March.

I feel like I could go on quite a bit but my mind is already wandering…..feel free to shoot us any questions

SCRATCH THE ABOVE SCHEDULE!!! Today is 2 days later, and EVERYTHING has changed again—ie. classes eliminated, new classes formed, new schedules for everyone---me at school 4 hours early….taking buses places and sitting for hours, not being able to teach etc. I am learning to be more flexible than I ever thought was possible for a human being!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!