jueves, 10 de mayo de 2012
Saying goodbye..
..is the worst thing ever. I don´t wanna come home. I don´t even know how I was excited. This is horrible. My room is packed up, I´ve said bye to my friends, and I just wanna cry. I´m gonna miss living in a city and being independent.. although hopefully Val and I will be getting an apartment in the city. But still. It won´t be nearly as beautiful, and it will be cold. I can´t believe it´s over. Last night I saw my intercambio for the last time. He wanted to walk around the river, and it was so weird we ended up at the Puente de Triana - the bridge where I spend my first night hanging out with the whole TDP group. I remember we were saying how crazy it is that we were gonna live in this beautiful city for four months. I remember wondering what it was gonna be like living here. What my senora would be like, who I´d be friends with, where I´d be living. Now I know. It came and went so fast and I hate it. I´m so grateful for the opportunity but it´s unreal. It was the weirdest feeling being at that same spot again with a totally different mind set. I didn´t write this past week because I´ve been so busy studying, but last Thursday I had my last class with the kids. I can´t believe it was last Thursday! This week flew. Anyways, I hadn´t seen them for a while so when they came into the classroom I got a lot of hugs. The class proceeded as usual, Victor was my helper. I was grateful because he´s good at English. He was able to tell me that it was rainy - and it never rains here, so I was surprised he knew the word. Then I played the game where they give me the vocab word I ask for. They were all yelling "Me! Me! Me! Me!". Except something wasn´t right. Blanca wasn´t there! I didn´t even know who to call on! Then I noticed she was there but she was sitting next to the teacher looking sad. I figured she was sick. So I played the fly swatter game with them, and then had them color in a bird and a rabbit. Everything went really well and I have the videos of the lesson. Blanca was really sad all class turns out because Ana had told them I was leaving! Okay, well I don´t know that. But she wasn´t sick and she always is right next to me the whole time. So I´ll jump to that conclusion. After the activity Ana asked me to close my eyes and had them give me a present. They made me a book of pictures they scribbles and they made me a really cute bracelet! I was so excited. When it was time to leave they all gave me hugs and I got pictures with them. Ana asked if I wanted one with me and Blanca. Something I need to work on as a high school teacher - gotta make it less obvious who my favorite is. The kids actually seemed to understand that I was leaving to go back home. Jesus was asking me about it and I told him I had to go back home to my country. He was like ohh so that´s far. You needa take a bus, and a plane. And a train ride. Haha I´ll miss him. It was really sad. By the end of the class Blanca was okay again and told me she loved me and gave me some hugs. So sad I´ll never see them again. Maybe when I come back here to teach I´ll have some of them as students again! Other than that I´ve been sooo busy with finals. Luckily I feel like I did well on all of them. I´ve been studying up on the roof to get some color before I come home. Got burnt today - the sun here is so strong. My Teaching Development teacher got in a motorcycle accident last weekend. He was on the back of his friends motorcycle and a car hit them. He broke his femur and has been in the hospital. Really sad we didn´t get to say goodbye to him because he´s been great and has taught us so much. It also messed things up because he didn´t make it to some peoples last class, which was our final. Tonight after my last final TDP met up with Caro, our director, and had a coffee and said goodbye. So sad she´s awesome. Then after dinner - which senora didnt come home for AGAIN! .. Wont even get into that.. the TDP group met up on top of the setas. Unfortunately I couldn´t drink because I kind of had a migraine earlier, because I was the one who suggested going there because the sangria is amazing. Oh well. I got froyo on the way instead =) Well I have to go to sleep.. gotta be up at 6 for my ride to the airport :(
Suscribirse a:
Entradas (Atom)