I know that I have mentioned that they are all on Chilean time here but the truth is it is more of a life style. For some reason they have absolutely no worries. This carries into the lesson planning. My teacher is a great teacher from what I have seen but I never know what she is doing. I would hate to have to take over for her because I really don´t think she makes lesson plans, yet she always has an activity that has a specific way for it to be done. At one point today she asked me to do a part of the activity and she did it again because I must have done it wrong. Even though I really had no clue what I was doing, and I was completly flying by the seat of my pants it was a lot of fun working with the students.
We really wanted to use the Smart Board today but it still was not working. I was really bumed because I love to play with Smart Boards, so we did it the old fashion way, on the white board. Maybe tomorrow (Fingers crossed).
After lunch is our planning time. I was absolutely thrilled when she asked me if I would like to teach some lessons, of course I said yes. She began talking about what she was going to teach and what she wanted to teach while I was here. She went on and on and then she told me that she would have an activity for me to teach on Thursday. By this I am pretty sure that she meant that she would give it to me at the beginning of class on Thursday. I was not ok with this at all, I would much rather be a little more prepared and have something planned. I asked her for the topic so that I could put a little something together. She said that would be fine so I was off to start some planning. I really hope the Smart Board is ready for Thursday, I would love to do my lesson using the Smart Board. I think I will plan on it being ready.
After school was just like any other day, Pancho had practice, so I had some time to kill. No one was staying after school today so I was on my own. I spent a lot of time in the computer lab trying to get caught up on my Blog/Journal (I am still behind). I checked my email and worked on fixing an uploading error on my Kodak Gallery page, and then the technology teacher (also in charge of the computer lab) told me that I would have to go because she had to close everything down and go home. Now what was I supposed to do, I still have about 2 hours and I am really sick of going to the mall. I was really hoping someone would be staying after today so that I would have someone to hang out with and talke to. I went to the mall. I do like the walk there especially because it is so nice here right now. I could not have asked for better weather. After walking around looking at anything and everything (By the way everything here is much more expensive than in the states) it was time to return to the school to catch my ride. Pancho and I were dropped off and just chilled around the house. This gave me some time to get the planning started. I really hope the Smart Board is ready.
