Another week nearly over

As another week draws to a close I realise how lucky I am to be in such a nice environment. Such a nice city, school and apartment !! 

And I realise that I am really going to miss walking through the playground and lunch hall with little shouts of 'Jemma' 'Hola Jemma' 'Hello Jemma' from here there and everywhere. It makes me feel like I am apart of a very big family :)

I also am going to miss the lunch lady that always calls me over and speaks to me in Spanish (I don't really know what she is saying but I smile and laugh with her) and gives me SOOOOO MUCH FOOD. Like today I had two lunch ladies just putting things on my tray and it was too much but they both looked so happy that I felt really bad and couldn't refuse so when I was leaving I tried to hide the left over food and put the fruit in my bag pack for a snack later (Good times)

Tomorrow is Friday and I have 3rd and 4th grade and I know I shouldn't have favourites but I think 4th grade are my favourites closely followed my 3rd-they are all really good kids and we have such fun classes together :)

Kahoot hoot

After trying out Kahoot for the first time in my 1BATX class (16/17 yr old students) I know I'm going to have to start 'kahooting' more frequently. At the end of my lesson regarding the 1st and 2nd conditional, the students were a little confused when I asked them all to take out their mobile phones; however 1 question in and the response was incredible, collective and communicative (the students played in teams) - shouts of annoyance at getting a question wrong, and delight at beating the other teams by answering correctly!

It's been another busy week full of late-night-planning but, I don't think I've ever learnt - nor have I grown - so much as I have these past few weeks.

A massive thank you once again to UKLC for providing this opportunity and another grande gracias to the fantastic and lovely Spanish teachers for cultivating such a wonderful in-class environment.

Run out,ran out ,running out !

My metro ticket has run out.
My money is running out.
My steam has run out.
I feel like running out.....

hola chicas!

I have lived with different people from different countries and in different cities but I have to say that the girls I ended up sharing a flat here are the most mature ones I've lived with (so far)

mature in the sense that we all know how to keep things in order around the house for the others without having to create cleaning schedules etc.

we differ in our age too, but even so we all still get along very well with each other - maybe it's because we are all quite open minded?

I love coming home and saying "hola chicas!" and finding them all in the living room (followed by our daily chit chats!)

Our evenings....

Hola  :) Yesterday, late evening,  after 11 pm  in our flat.... Complete silence.. but not because we all were  fast asleep. I came out of the room just to find out that everyone was doing exactly the same what I was doing- Planning, planning and planning..

Me! Me! Me!

Note to self: do not pick students by the speed at which they raise their hands (it's impossible, they're all so excited that they all want to be chosen!) This happened during the 1 ESO class - I had grouped students in teams and they had 30 adjectives missing from Alanis Morissette's 'Hand in my pocket' lyrics. They listened to the censored version of the song (of course!) 3 times and then they scored 2 points by writing the word and correctly spelling it (if the word was misspelt, then a point was up for grabs for whichever team correctly spells it first)

Even though I have only taught the 1 ESO class twice, ever since I had my first lesson with them last Tuesday - they always always greet me whenever they see me in the corridor. I left the school with a loud farewell from a bunch of them :)

Weekend

I had a blast with everyone this weekend, 4 days and counting till I get to see everyone again 👍