Thank Goodness It´s the Weekend!

First of all: Go Bucks! I´m totally wearing my jersey and everyone thinks I´m crazy, but whatever. I heart the buckeyes. So anyways, the first week of class with the little ones went very well. You have to remember that these kids have never been on any sort of schedule before and this experience is totally new to them. At home they are only disciplined by hitting and yelling or they have no discipline at all...so, as a result they hit, yell and unfortunately bite to get what they want. It´s trying, but worthwhile. By Friday I think everyone KNEW it was Friday and needed it. The concept of a weekend break from school will either be refreshing for the kids or we will have to start all over trying to introduce them to this schedule. We will see of Monday. Loryn and I joked about how much we wanted to do a teachers´happy hour yesterday afternoon. Oh well. I napped instead. Equally nice. There is a student named Angel (irony) and he is Satan´s child. He is consistently acting up, but Loryn says I do a good job of staying on top of him. I´m pretty good at disciplining kids, but there is nothing I can do to this kid as far as punishment that will make him listen. The worst part is that he is LITERALLY ALWAYS SMILING. Oh, gosh, that´s not the worst part, the worst part is that he is probably one of my favorites, he crack me up. It´s difficult to get a point across when he is making me laugh. I´ll work on that.
So my Spanish is getting better. I am making a point of sitting with the family for longer periods of time to try and pick up more. I´m not gonna learn sitting in my room. :) The thing is most of the Dominicans I know under 25 want to learn English from me. I´m like No people, I´m supposed to be the one learning your language. Ha! But, I´m sure we can work something out where we are learning from one another. Afterall, I did come down here to teach English. Outside of the classroom is no different.
Okay well, that´s all I have to report for now! I´ve noticed that no one has commented on my past few posts...if no one is gonna follow me, then I´m not gonna waste my time on the internet writing out these updates, or at least not as often. Let me know.

Love Jamie. Go Bucks!