Time to Work!

After having 3 weeks to relax and read (in English and Spanish), I went to work this week. The Ministry of Education provided training sessions for all of the teachers across the country. Conveniently, the teachers in my "state" met across the street from my house at the high school where I will be working. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet most of the English teachers that I will be working with for the next 2 years and to renew my contact with the teachers that I worked with in May and June last year.

Next Monday is the first day of school here and even though I don't know my exact schedule yet, I do know that I'll be working primarily in the mornings at the high school. In the afternoons, I'll be working with the university to provide free English conversation classes to high school students, college professors and high school teachers. This is probably the part of my job that I am most looking forward to because I'll have classes of only 20-25 students in contrast to the 50+ that I'll have in my classes at the high school. Eventually the University would like to expand the program to provide workshops for University professors...but I'm going to wait until I have everything else under control before offering any additional assistance.