Back to School

So Tuesday Jan 8th was my first day back at work. I was extremely tired, exhausted and jet lagged. I slept in till 11 when Rosa and Zore came home and woke me up because they are loud. Then I woke up, talked with them for a while. They always seem to get upset when they come back because Adri left something dirty, used their stuff, I burned their decorative incense, that I didn´t know was only for decoration etc. So they always come in, inspect everything and then get angry and talk about it. So then I showered, unpacked (finally) ate lunch, ran a few errands, ate lunch and tried to prepare for my first day at the new school. I didn´t really know what to expect and I was pretty rushed and nervous. I went there with Veronica who is my boss and the director/owner of Nachete´s school, and she showed me the room, intoduced me to a few people, showed me the kids and left me alone with 6 -- 4 and 5 year olds. Guess what, kids are terrible when they are that old as well. The way this class goes is the first 30 minutes the kids eat their snack and then an hour of class. I am also replacing their beloved teacher Nikki who got fired because she didn´t do a good job. So the kids decided to not pay any attention to me, run around, yell, play hide and seek, etc. I tried to gain control, but using only English it was impossible. At the end one of the worst kids explained to me that they were acting so bad because they only love Nikki and they want her to come back. My favorite part was having 5 kids screaming at me in unison their Spanish version of ¨Sit Down! Sit Down! Sit Down!¨ as they pointed their little dirty fingers at me. After that hour and a half of chaos, I ran to my other 2 classes with Carletes and Marta, which went well, but I was so tired. Then I came home because Mari Angeles cancelled on me, talked to my mom on the phone and went to bed.

Wednesday Jan. 9th, work at school. I got there for my first hour and one of the teachers called to say that she couldn´t make it, about 10 minutes before it was supposed to start and the other guy never showed up. I don´t remember much else but the kids excused their bad behavior with Post Vacation Syndrome. Then home, lunch, Conchi and Valentina cancelled on me and then probably dinner and bed. I was having terrible jet lag where I would be exhausted all day, but when I would go to bed at 10 or so I would be wide awake and lay there for quite a couple hours and repeat the process the next day.

Thursday Jan 10th. Work in the morning, more bad kids etc. Also we found out that Maria Angeles who was still sick and in Madrid for tests, and the test results came back and she wasn´t going to come back for the rest of the semester. That´s really sad because we love Mari Angeles, she must be really sick and its really hard for us to give class to the kids without the real teacher. Unfortunately Michelle has all of her classes with her so she had the hardes´t job. I went with her for my free period on Thursday to help her, which was fun, but it was to her Special Ed class, so the kids are bad and know absolutely nothing... Then home, lunch and guitar. I had barely practiced and my teacher told me so. The quote he used this time was that oil can´t hide in water because it rises to the top, so he could tell I hadn´t practiced. Great. After that I´m sure I tried to go to bed with out success.

Firday Jan 11th. Work again at 9:30, a meeting in my free period with the teacher to figure out what we are going to do without Mari Angeles till her sub came in 1 or 2 weeks, and to talk about how it was going . So this week I not only worked the full 10 hours, I worked 2 extra at school and started at the new school. I was so pooped for my first week back. Rosa and Zore said they were going to stay in Granada this weekend since they had just been at home for almost a month straight, but when I got home Adri said they left after all. I was so glad. Now I am really used to having them gone, the house basically to myself and Victor and I knew it was going to be so strange to have there after 3 straight months of them gonig home every weekend. Also a new reality tv show started calle Fama, or Fame. Its a combination of Big Brother where they all live in a house together and a dancing competition. Adri being a dance teacher likes it and Zore loves it too. I didn´t like it at the beginning since I don´t really care about dance or reality TV, but now I´m hooked since it is on every day at lunch time. So I watched that, went to work in the afternoon, came home bought a few things, and got ready for Victor to come. He came and was so tired he fell asleep by like 11 watching tv. That was just as sign of the weekend to come.