Kathryn's Peace Corps Adventure

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Saturday, October 07, 2006

a day in the life

7 am: Watch morning news program based in Mexico City as you eat corn flakes with granola and have coffee with chocolate soy milk.

715 am: Dance to Young MC's "Bust a move" as you get dressed.

730 am: Arrive at colegio to be attacked by students in primer curso who "desperately" need one of the 8 Spanish/English dictionaries.

733 am: Offend several parents with your short skirt (as you forget that there was a meeting with the "PTA") but receive several whistles from the students.

810 am: Let students use the computers because the director won’t say anything due to the PTA meeting. Students use 4 computers and all 4 students use paint and all 4 make cars.

900 am: Wave to Oscar while he's giving class. When he waves back, you give him the finger to make him laugh. (it works)

940 am: Go to the grade school to give English classes. Get attacked by kids asking you about your camera, your computer, your playstation, your toaster oven (weird one).

1050 am: Let the 5th graders put fancy girly gloss on your lips.

1051 am: Embarrass Brayan by kissing him on the cheek in front of said girls with mouth full of sticky girly gloss.

1052 am: He retaliates and bites your face.

1115 am: 6th grade English. You give an exam. Well, you try to give an exam. You know they're going to cheat anyway. It's a battle you've chosen to stop fighting over.

200 pm: You correct those tests. More kids should have cheated. The average is 45 %.

225 pm: Instead of giving classes to the afternoon students, the director decides to hold a teacher's meeting instead. Your cue to get the hell out of there.

340 pm: Put all your garbage in a cardboard box to burn. Put all burnt trash in same box. Put all trash ashes in same box. Burn box.

420 pm: Only about 1/2 of that box actually burned. Now you have more trash than before.

500 pm: Watch Simpsons on DVD with Brayan and Luis. Laugh at all the jokes that you remember in English from the episode "Lisa on Ice", even though you watch the episode in Spanish.

525 pm: Luis combs through your curly head to find a super long lock of hair. You say, "How strange" and he teases you about your accent for the rest of the afternoon.

600 pm: Switch between "La fea mas bella" and "Que dice la gente?"

715 pm: Dance like a maniac to try to burn some calories from those refried beans.

805 pm: Watch "Pasiones Prohibidas" with Williams and make fun of the people. (Yet, you realize that you have become addicted to a terrible novela.)

1020 pm: After spending 10 minutes preparing your English lesson for the next day, try to sleep as you listen to your neighbor's dog bark at a horse.

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