As I expected, I'm not keeping up very will with this blog.  It's been almost a month, so I apologize if you've been waiting.  I have been busy... my class started last week Monday!  Well, half of the students came Monday and the other half came on Wednesday.  Half, of course, being one.  Things different from what I'd expected.  I have one 13 year old girl who went to a bilingual school for a year and already understands quite a bit of English and one 14 year old boy who came in knowing (sort of) the alphabet, the months, and numbers 1-19.  I was horrified when I learned the ages of my class (considering that, after student teaching in 2nd grade, I'd decided I did not want to teach above Kindergarten), but I've actually enjoyed it a lot.  I don't know if I would do very well with a whole classroom of teenagers, but working with the two is nice.  The start has been a bit rocky because I've had to teach it a bit like a double grade classroom and plan the day so that one student is always working independently while I work with the other one.  I've never done that before, so my timing hasn't been quite right all of the time.  I also need to try to find more ways to have my students work together in a way that is helpful to both of them.  I'm still figuring out how to do that when they're at such different levels.  I'm creating most of the curriculum on my own because the materials that were provided (first grade workbooks) aren't really appropriate for my students.  The content is way too basic for the girl, and the activies are too juvenile for the boy.  He hasn't quite reached the age where it's fun to do little kid-ish games again.  I don't really know what I'm doing.  They seem to be learning, though, and have told me that they enjoy class.

Outside of school, not a ton of new stuff has happened.  Things are good and I am enjoying myself.  Last weekend, Jen and I made some of the best cookies I've ever tasted.  She has also stopped translating for me as much and instead repeats or rephrases things that I didn't understand.  It's kind of nice because now my host family realizes that I can understand quite a bit if they just slow down or word something another way.  Also, I'm fairly certain I'm staying for another year.  I'm not positive yet if I'll be at the same school or a different one, but I'm pretty sure I'll be in Honduras.  I talked to the guy who hired me, and he said that there should definitely be a place for me at one of the schools.  Thus far, this news has gone over rather poorly with my family.  I'm hoping it will get better after a few weeks, though.  Keeping my fingers crossed :/.