*sorry I have been horrible at posting lately, I'm going to be better!
Today was a pretty good day. It's Friday so I start with Segundo Bachillerato (12th grade) which is my least favorite usually just because it feels impossible to get them to do or care about anything. That class went okay I gave them people magazines my mom sent me from home and had them do a scavenger hunt. I had 2 segundo ESO (8th grade) classes that went pretty well and I was dreading my biweekly Friday recreo (recess) duty. The past 2 times have literally been a torturous 30 mins of walking back and forth aimlessly and having groups of students pass by say hi and then talk about me or basically cat call me from the basketball court "Lindsay mira!" (Lindsay look!) today started out pretty much like that and I was guarding the wrong part of the area to begin with, until the other teacher came up to me and said "no, no, no" so I thought she was telling me I couldn't eat my peach when I was on duty but she was actually telling me I was in the wrong spot. So anyway I walked around for a few minutes and then a group of 4 junior and senior girls came up to me and we talked the whole rest of the recess. They were so sweet and it was nice to just talk to them because they wanted to talk not because I was badgering them to practice their English in class. They told me I should practice my Spanish with them but I told them I can't I'm there so they practice English, but they were still really sweet who knows maybe I will break the rules one day and speak a little Spanish with them ;) I don't think the girls realized how much they made me day just b talking to me and not staring at me like everyone usually does. The rest of the day went well I had a class of juniors that I couldn't help but just laugh at because they say the funniest things. I had a lot of fun with them though. I wish all the classes could understand that, that if you treat me with respect and participate we can have fun and I even let them study for the test they had next because in the beginning they put their notes away when I asked them to, it was that simple but I had a class the day before that refused to put their notes away the whole time. I struggle with it because I know they don't care about my class it's not important to them especially the seniors. The few who care about learning English listen to me but there's no use in forcing the ones who don't. Am I really going to change their minds and convince them that English is important? Maybe with those classes that's what I need to do, show them why learning English is worth their time...
So I'm getting into the groove with school and life it feels like. We've also had a lot of fun discovering the city. Just the other day I was running through Parque Retiro the famous park that is just a few blocks from our house and I literally ran into a garden of peacocks. I was adding a little detour to my run and I found myself in a beautiful garden with peacocks wandering around, that's normal right? Then on Saturday we all went there and took pictures and hung out by the lake, it was an absolutely gorgeous day.
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