If I wasn't full of myself, what else would I be full of?!

Heya blog! I had a great day with the students today. We played a review game at the beginning and they remembered a lot! I was worried at first that it was too complicated to explain, but after a few practice rounds they got the concept and even got a little competitive :D I did the lesson on travel and transportation so I had an exercise on giving directions. This one I almost left out of my lesson plan for fear of them not getting it and it did end up being a little difficult for them to grasp. I drew a simple map on the board with street names and various locations like the bus stop, train station, hotel, airport, post office etc... and I would ask people to give me directions from one place to another. The had sped through the directions I taught them so I thought this would be a piece of cake but I had to do a LOT of explaining and examples to get them to understand how to do it. One guy who was a little more advanced volunteered to try so he gave everyone else courage to try and a few of them did a really good job giving me directions before class ended. It was pretty funny when they gave me the wrong direction to go because I would start to act really lost and have my person (the marker I used to keep track of where "I" was on the map) wander around in confusion. They enjoyed the humor in this I believe... they're a much more easy going group than my Monday students :)

Khadija talked to us about muslim traditions in morocco for births, deaths, and marriages. They are celebrated extremely differently than here... it's crazy. To chose a baby's name, they have family and friends write a name down and they basically draw it randomly!! How odd is that? Khadija named her brother and he named their other brother! hahah... As for the rest of the day, it's been less than exciting since I've just been researching for my paper all day. Don't get me wrong, the material is interesting and fascinating, but not as fun to write about here since I've been writing about it all day and my brain is confusing a few concepts hahah... bear with me, I'll explain my fantastic finds later when I'm in a better mental state to do so.

Oh! and I heard from the Amerispan lady, so I know I have my place still but they don't give out the placement details until last minute. I looked up the school and it is literally around the corner from me, so at least I know where that is :)

Well the Cafe is closing up so I guess I should let the server clean up our spot and go home...

Later!