Work Week

I’m trying my best to keep this blog up-dated weekly. Having busy weekends, full days of work, language exchanges, and my fair share of metro commuting it’s been hard to sit down to reflect as much as I would like.

I have officially been in Madrid for a month and a half now (exactly the same amount of time I spent studying in Toledo in 2007) and at the end of this week I will be done with my first full month of work! My routine has become much more regular and I don’t feel as out of place as I did seven weeks ago.

My four day work week has become much easier to manage and the commute hasn’t been as draining as it was the first few weeks. I leave my house around 7:50 A.M. to catch two trains and a metro so I can arrive to work by 9 A.M. when school starts. Luckily, the hour there gives me enough time to fully wakeup before being bombarded by 3^rd grade Spaniards. I pass the time on the train talking to my roommate María and reading the daily paper Qué - I’ve become a regular horoscope reader and have done my best to keep up with the drama of Spanish fútbol.

My work schedule changes daily - which has been a stressful adjustment. I work with a vairety of classes with students from first through sixth grade. The kids have been amazing and are adorable (except when there are 29 in a classroom screaming at the top of their lungs). I have my favorites (including the student who chucked a pencil at my face my first day of work). This week is Halloween and Friday we are going to use half of the day to let the students play Halloween games and have a little fiesta to celebrate!

Below is a picture of el colegio that I work at:

Un beso, Rachel