Today was my second day of class. The class is exhausting, we are there all day 9:30-6:30 and essentially in the same classroom with the same people all day. By next Monday we will be teaching from our own lessons, so this weekend I will be writing lesson plans! This week we are mostly learning grammar, getting instruction in how to deal with students, etc. It is a lot of information. The instructors are all great, and the school is just a few minutes from my home. I also live very near the soccer stadium--I can see it looming over the apartments and shops when I leave my building. After class, I will generally come home to do homework and prepare for the next day's class. At least I'm not spending any money--no time for that!
The ladies I live with are wonderful and my spanish is already improving from speaking with them each day. On Sunday they prepared tortilla espanola, gazpacho, and fondue, to welcome Tom and I. Today they bought me a fan for my room because it is still very hot in Madrid and there is no central a/c.
There are students in my class from England, Ireland, Australia, and South Africa--I'm going to make friends with those, as that is top on my list of places to visit!
Back to work, turns out being an English teacher takes effort,
Megan
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