Number of Weeks in: 2
Number of Freak Outs: Around 5
Number of Scorpions Seen: 0 (and it had better stay that way)
Total Tarantulas Seen: 1 and it was dead...luckily
Days until Christmas Vacation: Too many to count!
You might ask yourself what I have been doing for the past two weeks that might make me freak out...especially since I only started teaching yesterday. Well, dear friends, I would have to say that all this planning for students I have never met would be a good start...that and the ongoing fear of encountering a scorpion.
It has been a little harder for me to adapt here because I feel so much more isolated due to my own lack of Spanish. It has of course improved greatly since my first day of arrival, but I am far from fluent. One thing that helps me is living with the Mexican family I am currently boarding with. I don't have too many other options of communicating to them through Spanish.
Lately, though, I have found that I have kind of hit a plateau, and I am not trying as hard to learn it...possibly because I am so wiped when I get home from teaching...all that thinking tends to do a girl in. I just hope that this is only a temporary situation...because it could make for a long six months if the only Spanish I have to go on is the present tenses of eat, sleep, and have!
It has been a little harder for me to adapt here because I feel so much more isolated due to my own lack of Spanish. It has of course improved greatly since my first day of arrival, but I am far from fluent. One thing that helps me is living with the Mexican family I am currently boarding with. I don't have too many other options of communicating to them through Spanish.
Lately, though, I have found that I have kind of hit a plateau, and I am not trying as hard to learn it...possibly because I am so wiped when I get home from teaching...all that thinking tends to do a girl in. I just hope that this is only a temporary situation...because it could make for a long six months if the only Spanish I have to go on is the present tenses of eat, sleep, and have!
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