Ma, I don't WANNA go to school...

Well, I do, usually.

As a TEFL PCV, I'm required to put in 15 hours at school. I teach 12 hours of the same classes each week, and then the extra three hours I kind of take at random, popping into other forms, and hanging out with different students and teachers. (Because of the way the schedule works - classes being split/held at the same time, there's really no good way to take on a whole other class, so I spread the love.)

When I go in early for those classes, I get up at 7 or 7:30.

When I don't, I get to go in at 9:30.

When I woke up this morning in the dark and the rain, I decided to sit with my coffee instead.

Yeah, it got cold again. With a wave of PCVs blogging about how it's finally spring, karma came back laughing hard.

Thanks guys. ;-)

But that's the weather, and no different from Cleveland where it always seemed to snow on Easter, we're back with the bipolar spring. (One girl wrote yesterday's date on the board "4th of February." When I asked her to correct it she said, "But the weather is February!" Poor thing.)

My students still know its April though, and they're getting antsy. All they want to do is play games, no work from the book or actual "learning" (even though I swear some of my games are more educational than what normally happens). So my CP has had to up the discipline.

Props to her, in a society where corporal punishment of children in the classroom is accepted, she has never laid a hand on a child.

She just makes them stand in the corner.

Or yesterday, she made one kid stand on one leg for a good 5 minutes.

I couldn't stop laughing, it was great.

Other things that happen in my class, I get weird questions about how to translate things. Some favorites...

What is the meaning of:
Call of Duty
Grand Theft Auto
Red Devil
Wash & Go

Are these names Mexican or American:
Diego, Luna, Dora, Lucas, Charlie

And from one of my girls, who doesn't give a crap about English, she asked me to translate and help her learn to sing "My Heart Will Go On."

That's why, for lessons, I end up teaching them pop culture (or at least, pop culture from the 90s, because that's about how long it takes to get here.) i teach it in English, hoping that some of it will stick.