Back to "Normal"

We are back to a full week of school after having 4 days last week, and prior to that was Spring Break. I stayed in Santiago for Spring Break, and taking advantage of having some down-time- (and to having the apartment to myself for a few days) Netflix movies, grocery shopping, picking up packages, La Campagna (coffee)... I'm a bit of a homebody, and really don't get bored being home by myself. On Easter there was a group of us that got together and had an Easter dinner-- pork chops, veggies, potatoes, and Reese's cheesecake, home made ice cream and puppy chow for dessert! Along with the dinner we decorated Easter eggs (which is an American tradition-- it is not something that Dominican's have heard of doing), and hunting for 100 Easter eggs in the apartment.

We have entered the last 9 weeks of school, which is so hard to believe we're there already. I'm finishing up testing another potential SST student, and will start doing end of the year testing my student's and then meeting with parent's to sign contracts for next year. I'm to the point in my schedule, where I can't fit any new SST student's, so if they qualify, then we have to wait till next year to provide services. As many other teacher's know, there's just not enough hours in the day to fit everything in, or get everything done!! One of my student's has alternate Math, and due to my schedule, I couldn't teach her by herself, so I have her with other student's at that time. I've been using Moby Max on the computer with the student, and so far it has been going well. There are also some 7th grader's that are using it for a Reading intervention. I just discovered it this year, and am trying to familarize myself with it. I also have another student that their class was reading a chapter book for Reading, and the book is too hard for him, so we decided to pull him, and he would come to my room during that time, and I have Reading independent work at his level that he'll work on-- I'll be multi-tasking, b/c I will have other student's in my room as well.

I've also been working on a presentation that I'm going to be presenting at a workshop for some college students at the University in Santo Domingo next week. The other SST teacher teaches at the Univ in SD and she told them about me, and a few weeks ago they asked me to present on "Targeting Learning Styles with Technology." I've never done anything like this before, so this will be a new (and a bit scary for me!) experience for me! The workshop is from 4:30-6:30, so I'm taking a taxi to the bus station from school to get the 1:00 bus, and then they will pick me up, and also take me to the station when I'm finished. That's been taking up a lot of spare time working on that, but It's been an exciting opportunity!

T-13 Days till I leave for the States! I fly out here at 6:10 on  Wed April 20th, to go to my brother's wedding. Every day is pretty much planned out with something to do-- it will be busy, but I'm very excited to be able to go, and see everyone!