Sara's Adventures Abroad: I Lika Dogs

Day 9

It rained again this morning, but luckily I thought to bring an umbrella with me on the trip. We started at 10:30 and taught back-to-back grade 4 classes. Our first lesson to the grade 4 class was our Canada lesson that we are using for our evaluation, so it was a run-through today. It went extremely well! It was kind of nerve wracking as Maria, Jenny, and two girls who came on the trip watched us teach our second block which was animals when they were full of energy and a little wild. When we went though the names at the beginning the one little boy was like “My Name is Lorenzo and I like Alex.” It was hilarious, all the kids were laughing. The kids all wanted our autographs too which was funny. Next we had lunch, which was soup today. After lunch we taught all three grade 5 classes in the afternoon – they were crazy. We mostly worked on conversation with the grade 5s and verbs and played charades with the verbs. They spoke English really well, and talked to us about music. They all wanted to hold our hands too. We walked back to the hotel and were completely exhausted from the long day. We lesson planned for the rest of the week until dinner. Shannon and I both really wanted a hot chocolate for dinner because we heard they are really good, so we paid 1 euro each and got a hot chocolate at the bar in the lobby. It was so delicious and so creamy! During dinner we all laughed at the Kenya trip, joking that they wouldn’t be drinking wine like us. First course was spicy pasta, which wasn’t very good. Second course was two pieces of pizza – the first was mostly tomato and the second was a white pizza with garlic sauce and ended with tiramisu for dessert. After dinner, Kylee, Alex and I went to Jenny’s room to go over our lesson plan that she is evaluating tomorrow. She seemed to really like it!