I'm sort of the cat's Meow.

Hola amigos mios! Much has happened since my last entry - both good things and bad. I'll start with the bad, because then you will leave thinking I am a Hannah Happy rather than a Debby Downer. Last week, I got sick. I'd like to call it traveler's sickness, because that is what it felt like, but really I don't think it qualifies because it was my own fault for eating jam that had been open and not stored in the refrigerator. So turns out if the label says refrigerate after opening, you should probably do that. Or vomit all night. Either way. But within 48 hours and a weekend diet of rice and Gatorade, I was better :)

This week I started teaching 3 of my 4 classes: History and Literature of Theatre, AP English Literature, and AP English Language. I'm really enjoying teaching these students. I think that students at this school are more motivated, more polite, nicer, and maybe even more mature than students I might encounter at a public school in the USA. Maybe not, but they are quality kids, regardless. Plus, I have decided that I much prefer high school to junior high, because they are more responsive, more thoughtful, and I don't have to be their organization. They can do that themselves. (Although I am not opposed to junior high, I just think that so far I like this better.) I am currently teaching "Oedipus the King", Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country, and a series of hand-picked essays for AP Lang. Next week I will take on the fourth class - Reading the Bible as Literature - and I will begin teaching Ruth and Esther.

Now I will tell you why (besides the obvious reasons) I am the cat's meow. I have been meaning to go the super market for over a week now. But I had a predicament because I did not know where it was. I thought that perhaps it would be good to ask someone to go with me, but who? One of the students that lives in the dorm with me - one of my own students?... potentially awkward. Or my teacher?... but he's already so busy with the school play and his home life. So I'd sort of been putting it off, but today I was feeling adventurous. So I asked for directions to the SuperMaxi (this is the name of the grocery store, not a new kind of maxi-pad...tehe). But I'm not very good at directions, so I looked at Google maps and made myself a map. And then I started walking, and arrived there with no problems at all. It was so exhilarating. I felt like a bird being let out of a cage, because really after a while being stuck on campus all day every day when there is a whole big city/different culture/country to be explored right outside the walls, makes me feel like a prisoner, even though I like it here. So basically I went hog wild. I walked into the centro comercial (a shopping mall) and I felt like I was riding a two-wheeler for the first time ever. Or like I was cruising down main street in my mini-van for the first time as a licensed driver. haha... Oh man, I guess I need to get out more. This was also a very special outing for me because I had inexpensive, delicious coffee(70 cents for an americano) for the first time since October 21. That is a very long time to go without my favorite beverage. So now that I have had my adventure for the day and bought tea, coffee, nutella, and bread, I am quite the happy camper.