Mid-term

Valeria's class was first...and Valeria was not there; she is on her way to Milan for surgery! Prayers for her please! 

So, I did not really have a lesson for them in the classroom, but we could not go to the lab.  So, I thought of some questions to write down on the board, and have them answer.  I asked:
1. Name
2. Where do you sit in the class?
3. What is something unique about you?
4. What is something about life in Calabria?
5. What is something that I must see in Southern Italy?
6. What is your favorite thing about school?  What is your favorite subject? Why?
7. What is one thing you want to talk about in English class?

They had the whole class period to answer and then give them to me.  They did a great job, and stayed on task for the majority of the time! 

My second class was Rosina, and I did the same activity with them.  They were great about asking questions, doing the assignment, and still seemed to have a bit of fun!  Rosina is so funny always telling the students that she is no longer the teacher, and they must ask me whether or not they can go to the bathroom and such.  So, it was a successful class, which always makes me happy!  I love this group of students. 

Rosina said she could drive me to school, but first she wanted to get coffee with me!  I was excited because I have been wanting to spend some more time with the teachers, and I really love Rosina.  So, we went to a bar across the street from the school and had coffee!  She is so sweet, so kind, and generous.  So, she was sweet to pay for my coffee, and then we went to the other school. 

When I got to Valentini, I discovered that we had a new computer/printer, and I did not need someone to help me do it.  Then I made copies; this was for the tongue twisters lesson that Andrea gave me.  The classes did not go as expected.  None of the students were there...okay...there were like 4 from Francesca's and 4 from Angelino's class.  The others were in some sort of meeting.  So, we did the tongue twisters, and some of them had fun with it, but others were just not feeling it.  Then Francesca had us play a game where you rolled a die and move to a letter...then you have to come up with a vocabulary word for that letter...so, they played in English, and I played in Italian. 

Angelino's class was just me reading the responses from my other classes...and he interrogated the students, and helped me understand some of what they were trying to say! 

After class, I came home and ate lunch, worked on lessons...could not nap...went out to get a few things...tried to get out of my funk, and worked on the mid-term report, which stressed me out majorly!  I finally got the mid-term submitted, and felt a weight lifted off of my chest...thank goodness!  I spent most of the evening trying to get out of the funk I was in! 

I had to use my sound machine app on my phone to help me fall asleep...I think the coffee had me so wound up that it was making me a wreck the rest of the day!  However, I did mark things off my to-do list, so that was good!