Overall, this past week, I mostly focused on reviewing the farm animals with the help of the Old Macdonald song. In most of my older classes, I started talking about the rooms of the house. We did an activity where each student got a little house and pictures of four animals. They had to put the animals in the correct rooms of the house. Later, they got to work in partners and one partner placed an animal inside the house and the other had to figure out which room the animal was placed in.
On Tuesday, I usually start the day off with the oldest kids, but today they had special guests come in and give presentations about the environment so I taught the little kids (5 year olds) instead. The guest speakers were pretty young and I even made friends with one of them! I never really expected to meet anyone around my age at the school, so it was a nice surprise :).
Tuesday afternoon I had lunch at the high school.
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| yum yum lunch |
Tuesday evening, I had my adult class. I had them watch a tourism video on Atlanta, and then they planned trips with a partner around the city. I gave them each maps and they had to figure out where they wanted to go, what they wanted to do there, how they were gonna get there, and the directions to those places. It was interesting to see what spots interested them most in Atlanta. The majority wanted to go to the World of Coke and the Aquarium. Then, they had to present their trips and give directions to others. At the end, I gave them directions and they had to figure out where I was taking them by analyzing the map. Overall, I think it was a useful lesson for them. And one of the adults brought bugnes, which are beignet-like pastries with powdered sugar. They were tasty!
I had to quickly get to the theatre after I finished the adult class, because I had tickets to a show! I went with my roomies and Fatima. The show was called File Tone and it was a very strange, but entertaining show. It consisted of five men, who seemed to be of different origin. They spoke some Spanish, Italian, French, but mostly English. It must have been hard for some of the older french people to understand, and at some points they were even joking around and telling people to translate jokes for non-english speakers, lol. It was a variety show consisting of juggling (hats and pins), beat-boxing, breakdancing, comedy, cross-dressing, dance, and little skits. Here is a youtube video that gives you an idea of the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NeW42YLoIs
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| Before the show at the theatre |
On Wednesday, I went for a run after my morning classes which felt really good! I ran to the port and next to the river for a bit. I took this panorama near the river.
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| great day for a run |
In the late afternoon, I met up with my friend William (who I had met at school the day before). In the evening, Kate, Kim, and I had dinner at our neighbors. Tim cooked some delicious pizzas for all of us! He made three varieties: a vegetable one, a spicy chicken one, and a lamb one. My favorite was the spicy chicken!
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| two of the pizzas: lamb and chicken |
On Thursday evening, I left for Switzerland for the weekend and that blog post will be coming very soon!
Magdalena
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