Multiplication

We have started multiplication this week in the 3rd Grade!! It is incredible how motivated the students are to participate in math class. We have just begun introducing the 2's and 5's times tables. The students beg me to work extra on the practice packets and even will work during thier free time to complete the work! I just never realized how exciting multiplication really is!!

conferences and the beach!

Friday was parent conferences for me at CAG. I had to meet with the parents of 20 of my students every 20 minutes from 7:30 to 3:00. My fellow Spanish teacher and I had a little cubicle in the library to meet these parents and they came pretty much on time!! It was a very tiring day, but it all ran smoothly. This was the first time that I have had to have parent conferences. At Morgan County I was normally the one translating conferences for other teachers, but I did not have too many conferences myself. Rumor has it, parents here are more nervous than the teachers. I really didn’t have many negative things to say at all about my class or students, so my parents did not have too much to worry about. I have a pretty good group of kids both socially and academically. When I returned to my room, the students had covered my white boards with messages about how they missed me and that I was never to leave them for a whole day again! HA!! They are such cuties!! It made my day! By today I was over that cutie
phase and they were back to their normal selves!

To reward myself for finishing the conference I went to the beach. It was Roblans, Beth, James, and myself. I must have said “me gusta la playa” a hundred times!! Saturday was Revolution Day, but I decided not to parade or protest and instead play in the ocean. It was less than 2 hours from the city and was a very easy road (although I was not the one driving, but rather riding shotgun!). My car made it to and from in one piece as well!!

The beaches are black sand and the surf was too rough for any real swimming, but it was great to just sit and relax with the cool breeze and sounds of the waves. We went to a place called Aqua Magic. It had pools, water slides, playgrounds, sand soccer fields and beachfront! It was well worth our $8!! You definitely need the showers to clean all of the black sand off your body. I am so glad that we were able to go to the beach. Be sure to check Beth and James’ blog because I know they have posted pictures and better stories!

I have a car!

I have a car! I have a car! I have a car!! I am so happy!

Visitors and Trip Home

Good morning!! I am still working on this whole picture addition thing! Get excited because when my mom and dad come down in November, I have asked them to bring the necessary card reader for my camera and then we will be able to see my life again!! I will start taking more pictures so that I actually have some to put up of the blog!!
So mom and dad are coming on November 1st (All Saint's Day) and are staying until November 4th. We have been invited to eat with my Guatemalan family here for lunch on Thursday and then we are off to Lake Atitlan and Antigua. The rainy season should be ending by then so I have my fingers crossed for BEAUTIFUL weather. It will be great to have them come and see life here in Guatemala for a couple of days and more importantly just to see them!!
Beau is coming down December 14-21. We are going to have a full week to explore. Unfortunately Hilary will not be able to make it down on this trip due to how close it is to Christmas and how busy work will be, but that only means another trip for them will be planned in the future. I have nothing planned yet for when Beau comes, but the church may be taking a mission trip that first weekend so that would be AWESOME! Beau, start practicing all that Spanish you know!!
Finally I have bought my flight home for Christmas. I will be arriving late on Dec 21 and staying until December 28th. Dad has already informed me that it is too quick, but in all honesty, I know that if I stay much longer it will make my returning much more difficult. Plus I start back to school on January 3rd, so I wanted to be back here and settled for New Years! So I hope that you each will be around sometime during that week. I will not have car so that means that yall might have to come and chill at my house with me and the fam!! I know that we will be in both Atlanta and Athens because that is where my family is now- I am excited about that!
In the mean time, please continue to cheer on the Bulldogs even though they played terrible against Tennessee. I have to know that people are at home cheering in my place! I take some blame for the score on Saturday due to my futbol game and the fact that we have orange jerseys. It was not by choice, but with my game during the whole first half, I was forced into subliminally cheering for the other team. On a better note, WE WON! 4-1!! Adios and have a wonderful day!

Futeca

Futeca is a local soccer organization in which I am now involved. I play on the Zuca Shooters who are sponsored by Zucaritas (Frosted Flakes) and we are made up of ladies from the Colegio. We are the "non-competetive" team and there is another moere competetive team from the school. We had our first game last Saturday and WE WON!! 4-1! I never thought that I would ever play soccer, but it turns out that I am not terrible at it. We just play 4 on 4 plus goalies on small turf fields. If you want to keep up with the Zuca Shooters(we heard Tony el Tigre gets to come to our games) please follow the link. Click entrar and then Zone 14. We are in the Femenino Moviestar in the D league! Our next game is this Saturday at 10:00!

PS- Check out Wayne's crazy posts from the last blog! Who is gonna beat that!?!