Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Today I went to the elementary school where I do my practicum (internship) for school and the field instructor never showed up! But thats okay. . . I got by. This morning I almost finished my initial learning contract and then read through some other paper work that was left for me. I did go around to the kindergarten classes and told them that I was there if they needed me. One teacher in particular usually has many issues going on so I get to talk to a lot of her kids about not talking all the time, or not pushing, or not throwing rocks. Why they shouldn't do it? What could they have done? All the important stuff, but I just feel like this one teacher just stresses out to much and if she didn't she would be able to take care of more stuff I think. Then I walked into one of the kindergarten classrooms and the teacher was like you talk Spanish right? I was like sure, she said talk to this kid and see if he wants to play. He was just standing there looking down and being complacient. Well, I talked in Spanish and he understand but he never said a word to me. He opened up some though and kind of played with the toys around other kids. Then the last part of the day was kind of a handful I tried to help with a kindergarten class in music. Keep in mind the music teacher is another sweet old lady that has kind of lost her edge to control the kids, and she seemed really annoyed at me. But a couple of kids were out of control and I couldn't really do much about them. THen I tried to take them back to their class at the end and the other stressed out teacher kind of yelled at me for taking them to the wrong place. They are supposed to just go to the library since its close to the end of the day, well how am I supposed to know that? I left about 3 when school ended and wrote down most of the daily activities for my field instructor. I hope she is okay!

I am tired! It was nice to watch Inocente de Ti tonight though, my favorite telenovela. La Madrastra ended last night, which was really a good one! But Sunday there is a special episode, La Madrastra Anos Despues. Exciting!

Yeah, for class from 8:30 - 6 tomorrow, right?

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