Day 10: May 31st

Today was a pretty uneventful day. Melanie and I were both pretty exhausted from Antigua the day before. We were able to sleep in which I was very excited about! For most of the day we worked on preparing for our lessons we would be teaching the next day, Monday. The two lessons we planned were “She is a…” and “He is a…” We had to teach about different professions that people could be. There were eight vocabulary words that we had to work with. I made pictures for each of the professions while Melanie wrote on note cards for the students to use. After we made and gathered our props, we scripted out what we wanted to say in Spanish. We didn’t know how much English the students knew so we figured we should give some directions in Spanish. It was pretty difficult trying to say what we wanted to say in Spanish, but our host sister Luisa helped us with the translation.

After a long day of working on homework, we had dinner: plantains and beans…so good! While we had dinner we watched America’s Next Top Model and Survivor, in Spanish of course. It was just so funny watching those shows in Spanish just because I know how the people in the shows talk and it was just entertaining to hear it in Spanish. I also noticed that the shows were from a few years ago. The family didn’t care, they still really enjoy those shows and they were excited to watch it together. It was a pretty low key night, but fun nonetheless.