Boring Update on Unappealing Things

The english program starts on the eighteenth! Previously, english was taught outside of the normal school hours as part of the artistic expression block. As a result, the children didn't get credit for spending 5 hours a week learning english. Moving it to classroom hours has caused a delay of about a month due to bureaucracy.

I thought I was going to just be an assistant to the teachers (native guatemalans) and they would be the ones doing the teaching of the english. I'd just sorta help handing out papers or cleaning up or something other.

Really I probably should have figured I would actually be the one teaching english as I am a native speaker, but I didn't really factor that in.

Happy thoughts.

I will be making the lesson plans, following the lesson plan, and then doing a write up on how each lesson went.

My bosses don't really seem to mind my pink hair (The kids will love it!), my obvious disdain for children (They have an arsenal of dead baby jokes as well), my partying antics (We hope you channel that energy when teaching), nor my handicapped spanish (I'll pick up more whilst teaching the kids). But then I remember, I'm free labor everyday for 6 hours.

Spanish lessons are going awesomely. My teacher is excellent. I don't think I could have asked for a better spanish tutor in all honesty. Except maybe one that can keep up with me when we go out on the town for some good ol' immersion.

She took me to the section of the market that has second hand clothing for like 5GTQ. Picked up my first two sundresses for 100GTQ. My teacher says I really have to work on my haggling. A sundress for 50GTQ, originally 60GTQ, seemed like a good deal to me. 

I just finished up my first week of spanish lessons; During this week I've learned:

• Imperfect tense
• Preterite tense
• Present progressive tense

Not really learned I guess as I have taken three years of spanish previously throughout middle/high school. More like a refresher as my knowledge of the irregular preterite/imperfect verbs is pretty bare bones. I also already knew the present progressive, but apparently you can use the gerundio in place of some words/phrases.

• Future tense

They don't even really use the future tense that often; more common is the simple future construction. Still cool that I can say that I know how to construct/use the future tense.

• Present perfect tense
• Past perfect tense
• Future perfect tense

These tenses are actually used with some frequency in everyday conversation. My nephew actually made fun of me for not knowing the perfect tenses.

• Vocabulary related to things I like to talk about
• Some rather vulgar slang

In other unappealing news, I started training for my actual paying job today. I was sort of drunk. They loved me.  All is good and so well.

Song stuck in my head currently: Of Monster and Men - Sloom