Last week, on April 1st, Mr. Kasey said that we would have to put together a presentation on a day in an American school for our visit to the public school and we all got the impression that it was an April Fools joke. We all thought wrong. Today as we walked into the school Mr. Kasey reminded us that we had to get that presentation together. We have two days. To add to the work that needs to be done before we leave, we have now been asked to do an evaluation of our experience for our teachers. Some of us talked to our teachers and took the initiative to the this presentation thing started. We decided what needed to be in the presentation and broke it up so that everyone had a little part in the overall presentation. We also started the power point so that once everyone got their part done all we had to do was enter the information. We made a lot of progress on the presentation and while I could not do anything for the presentation, I worked on the evaluation for my teacher. I made some great progress. I got all of my part of the presentation done and the evaluation all in about an hour and a half. I was even able to return to the classroom and teach a whole class before lunch.
After lunch it was the same as every Monday, Ms. Mylene has academia and I go to the computer lab until school is out. After school Pancho had practice and some us went to the mall to kill some time, like always. I returned to the school at about 5 o’clock and watch the rest of Pancho’s practice. After practice we were headed home. Again Ivan and Odaly went to the office to work on some things. This left Pancho and I home alone until dinner. I worked on some of my journals and practiced my presentation for the public school visit. Dinner was great as usual and I talked to Ivan about helping me get a couple of good bottles of wine to take home with me. We made plans to go on Wednesday evening.
After dinner I took a cup of tea to my room and made a couple of phone calls. Aimee seems excited for my return home as am I but I can already tell that the departure on Friday is going to be bittersweet. I have really grown close to my host family and while I am excited to go home leaving the family here in Chile is going to be tough. While I am ready to be home I am starting to feel like I am not ready to leave.
