Friday, a group of us went to the restaurant Marisco Caribeno, to hear a SCS staffer sing-- she was filling in for the regular guy that sings there. I'm not sure how to upload Youtube video's directly into my blog, so I just have a link to the video I took. (If you know how, please let me know!)
Saturday, Kyla, Sarah and I walked to Lumijor, a very wonderful bakery, to have doughnuts (and I had a chocolate milk as well). It was so delicious!! The doughnut and chocolate milk was like 45 pesos-- which is a little over a dollar-- the doughnut was only a quarter! I also bought some cornbread, and I will be going back to get more, b/c it was also very good!
Saturday I finished the Harry Potter book that I had checked out from the school library. There were several of the teachers that had read the books, so I decided to check it out. It might be a series that I'll continue working on this year. We'll see how it goes once school starts! LOL
That evening, I went to my first official movie in the DR-- Mission Impossible-- the picture of the mall is a bit blurry-- but the theater was inside the mall. The movie was in English, with Spanish subtitles. It was a popular movie, b/c it sold out! I would highly recommend the movie as well. :-)
Before the movie we ate at the food court, and had Dominoes-- I thought it was funny/interesting that the majority of the food places were American-- Pizza Hut, Dominoes, KFC!
Sunday, we went back to the first church we had attended -- Vida Nueva, and then that evening the director, Seth Cohen hosted a Welcome Back dinner at his house with all the staff. It was a chance for us to meet some of the returning teachers and their families. Sunday was also, according to weather.com a 100% chance of rain, but unfortunately that didn't happen. ;-(
Monday, we met as a whole staff, beginning with worship, singing several songs in both English and Spanish-- and then Dr. Cohen going over the vision and goals for SCS staff and students. In the afternoon, we met divisionally, so I was able to meet all of the Elementary staff. I thought that I was going to be doing 1st-3rd students, but evidently not-- I will be doing all the student in Language Arts, and then one of the other SST teachers will be working with the students that need Math support (I think). For the next week or so, after school starts, we will be meeting with the families to get permission for their child to be in SST. We have to have the contracts signed in order for them to be in the program.
Monday evening, my roommates, and another friend Heather went over to Carrie and Kelsey, teacher's at SCS, for some homemade pizza and homemade ice cream! They live on the 4th floor, the top of their apartment, and have a gorgeous view at night of the city.
On Tuesday the teachers and aides were split into teams to go to the partner schools (there are 4 of them within the area, one of them being Palo Alto, which we saw in the mountains), and help with various projects. Unfortunately, I was sick yesterday and was not able to go-- which I was very sad about, as I was really looking forward to going. I am feeling better today, but it just may take a bit for me to feel all the way better.
Today we were informed about earthquake and lock down drills-- the earthquake information is quite new for me, since I've never lived in earthquake territory-- and other odds and ends, and the afternoon we were able to work in our classrooms. I have a teachers aide-- Everg Siri-- who has been an aide for I think 3 years, but has been at SCS a bit longer.
We have workdays tomorrow and Friday. Also tomorrow, Yoalba from the business office is going to take me to the bank tomorrow to cash my check, as we don't have bank accounts yet. (I was told that it takes a long time for them to get set up.)
Last night I also successfully ordered water from the colmado-- It came very easily this time. ;-) Today was another good chance of rain, and so far, it hasn't rained yet. Please pray for rain!!
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