i woke up today at 7:17. I normally leave around 7:30, because every minute you leave after 7:30, you have to add 5 for traffic. I hate the suburbs. It took me 15 minutes to make it past the light at College and BU because the damn light that shouldn't be there anyway was out and blinking. I managed to make it to Oak Park with enough time to just make it in the door by the bell. Which i shouldn't have to worry about because the teacher has taken to showing up about 2/3 of the way through announcements, like 4 minutes after the bell, anyway. but the lame news is that the meter i've been parking at for the last two weeks QUADRUPLED it's price over the weekend. It used to be 25 cents gets you an hour... so now i have to get there even earlier to find a parking spot and probably hike the rest of the way. bullSHIT.
observing went fine. the first year kids were doing nach erzählungen for der froschkönig. the second year kids were doing nach erzählungen for rumpelstilzchen. the third/fourth year kids were finishing their skits for Emil und die Detektive, and starting on this poster about Berlin that I found a bunch of web pages for them to use. next week I'm going to start getting my hands dirty with the entire class instead of just helping out one-on-one, by doing 'was machst du gern in deiner Freizeit' with the Ger I kids and reflexivverben with the third and fourth year kids. it should be fun times.
class was fine. we were supposed to start a half hour early and get out a half hour early because there was this guest speaker from McGraw Hill talking about teaching culture in the foreign language classroom. he was pretty cool, his stories about how he's from venezuela, and the stupid things he did accidentally when he went back there after living in the US for fifteen years, were pretty funny. I saw Inma there, my professor from last semester, and i saw Rott, who was my advisor for a while, still technically is, and has no idea who i am. i should have gone up to her and just started talking to her. but she probably would have just said "i dont know who you are" to my face and i would have looked like an idiot. i pointed her out to sarah, and my irritation must have shown through. her response was "ok, i'll trip her if she comes near us" then we went to class, where we did stupid busy work activities and definitely didn't get out a half hour early because my teacher has about as much sense of how long things are going to take as my 3 year old cousin. she also passed back our midterms where she definitely added wrong and gave me a 87.5 instead of a 92. she probably did it because she's lonely at her office hours. every week she begs us to stop by. looks like i'll be making an appearance this week.
karate was good. rory and i made fun of sensei brien about story time and he proceeded to tell us a twenty minute long story while the rest of the class warmed up. then we did a lot of ab and glut exercises that supposedly will help our kicks come exam time. when the hell is my exam again? then we worked on kata, and he mostly had good things to say about mine. so that was cool.
ok, now i'm really going to bed so i can get up for observing tomorrow.
