Tuesday and Wednesday have been a little more relaxed than Monday, although I’ve been working on shuffling my schedule around to accommodate for the extra time spent at Mision Nervana. I also had a test both days, so I’ve been busy studying on top of my normal homework.
On Tuesday night I had my class on modern Spain again, which was really interesting, and in reality, I’m excited about the big changes in my schedule here. I know I will be a lot busier, but I also know that both my service project and this additional class on modern Spain will be good for me. They’re undertakings that I’m interested in and that will give me more opportunities to practice my Spanish everyday, which is something I was really looking for.
After classes today (Wednesday), we had a quick meeting to plan for Friday’s school-wide trip to Ronda, a little town outside of Sevilla and to talk about the Thanksgiving dinner that our school is going to provide for us. Since Thanksgiving is an American holiday, that little celebration will be a really special, all-American day for us, complete with a secret Santa gift exchange. After the meeting, Corinne and I headed home for a quick lunch, and then I took off for my second afternoon at Mision Nervana. I wasn’t sure how long it would take me to get there, so I tried to leave plenty of time to get there without disrupting the normal schedule at our apartment too much.
It ended up taking about an hour to get to Mision Nervana, but the trip was once again absolutely worth it. I spent a few hours working with the kids studying English again, only this time I was the only teacher because the other one only comes on Mondays. I had fun helping the kids with their homework, practicing English vocabulary with them, and teaching them the song “head, shoulders knees and toes,” which we sang many times and they loved. After the time for schoolwork was over, my class joined the younger kids for an hour and a half of games, which was really chaotic but extremely fun. I loved being with the kids, learning from them, teaching some, and speaking Spanish lots and lots.
Once the kids went home, the other volunteers gave me a ride part of the way home and then I took the metro, so the journey back was a little shorter than the one there. We had dinner when I got home, and then I needed to settle in to write a composition for tomorrow. I’m nervous about the composition because I have so little time to work on it, but I’m grateful for the opportunity I’ve been blessed with to volunteer, and I’m sure things with my classes will work out just fine. Praise the Lord for His provision…I’m so grateful for His presence here and His clear movement in my life!
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