Nov 13 2013: School Weirdness

Wednesday. And this is where my week was really getting weird.

So it started normal enough, I went to school with Katie in the morning so she could teach her class. I fiddled around on the computer, started writing more for my story and brainstorming for our International class that evening, fixing up an old PowerPoint and all. Then there was lunch, and then Katie and I reviewed SUU classes- I’m planning on going full time in college for the first time in like three years [I know, I know], and I’m finally able to sign up for classes.

Though it was Katie’s busy day, she agreed to take on my class amidst her own. I tried and offered to teach one of her classes several times, but she said no. So I went home, reviewed my classes some more, and played around with some decent internet access for another hour before I could sign up. Which I did! 

There’s an online course and about 3 classes that only last the first half semester. It’s sort of random, but not too bad. Unfortunately I didn’t get into Spanish as planned, but I’m on the wait list so let’s keep these fingers crossed!

I took a very hot shower and finally returned to the school- to find out my class had been cancelled so Katie didn’t have to teach. And then another one of her classes had been cancelled, also! But she did teach her final class of the day after that. There was dinner, and we brainstormed more for the International class before finally heading up to the third floor to teach.

The kids slowly petered in and I was in the middle of roll call when Nicole came in and started talking to the students, some of whom seemed to be lightly freaking out. She turned to us and explained foreign teachers from American High Schools or someplace like that, was coming to check them out and let them go to school there or something.

So we didn’t teach our lesson. Instead, we stood around for twenty minutes, then we wrote advice and questions to consider on the board. Then we answered questions for the students, helped them edit their self introductions [they had been freaking out because they were supposed to be written beforehand but they had procrastinated instead, like all kids do]. We stayed and helped them for about half an hour after our class ‘ended.’ But we really enjoyed that! It was different, but we had one-on-one time with them, it was just small groups and they were really talking to us, I got to fix grammar and spelling which was a nerdy delight, and we really enjoyed that!

Finally, we headed home, and had Abby over for a movie night! They had bought a cheap DVD player and it took us a while, but eventually we got The Illusionist playing. I know, awesome movie right? Katie and I loved it! But I don’t think Abby really enjoyed it because she played on her ipad most of the time. Still, we had some girl talk after that for like two hours, before Abby finally headed home and Katie and I collapsed in our beds. It was a weird but pretty swell day overall!