An attempt to catch up on my blog!

Well, it has been a fulfilling, yet exhausting week for me! It is going to be difficult for me to put into words all that I experienced over the course of the last week but I will do my best. 

Friday (yes, this was last Friday!): I had the opportunity to observe some English classes in a rural community outside of El Sauce. The teacher had a great rapport with his students, was fortunate enough to have a teacher's guide to teach English from, and is currently taking English classes in a nearby city to improve his skills. He was very nervous about having me watch his classes, but I told him not to worry and that I was only there to see how he teaches and to help him come up with ideas that could help him improve. I observed 3 levels of English classes. The first class did a great group activity in which they needed to write down sentences about a vacation they could take. A few students had phones with a translator app to help them with the vocabulary. This class was located on the side of one of the buildings. The second class, however, was much more difficult as it was held right outside another classroom that was very noisy, and there were students running around outside for recess. The only materials the teacher had were a whiteboard and marker. He did a lot of writing while the students copied, and they really didn't practice much English. Classroom management was very difficult in this class due to the distractions and poor location. The third class was very large, and they were a first-level English class reviewing some vocabulary about the months of the year and birthdays. When the students found out that my birthday was coming up on the next day, they sang me a beautiful song called Las Mañanitas to wish me happiness - it is a Nicaraguan traditional song that is very long! The students sang abut half of it to me.