New friends and new skills

This week has gone really fast. I can't believe we've only got a week left. I've taught a lot more of my timetable this week and next week I'm teaching the majority of it. I'm happy about doing more teaching as I feel like I've really made progress even just in 3 weeks. I am learning from each lesson and finding that building a rapport with the students is key, as this week has been a lot better classroom management wise, because the students have got to know me and I've got to know them better too.


On Wednesday we met up with Andrea, a trainee English teacher at Santa Ana, and two of her friends also doing masters in English teaching. It was really nice sharing experiences with them and getting advice. And more importantly, they showed us a delicious restaurant very close to our school! 




On the weekend the Andreas organised a paella cooking class. I'd never done anything like it before and it was really fun meeting as a whole group and making some tasty food at the end of it! On Sunday the Andreas also organised an escape room for us all. Although parts of it were difficult because the clues were in Spanish and we needed to ask for translations, it was still a unique and enjoyable experience. Then we soaked up the last of the sun rays at the beach and went home with a veggie burrito! However, I think Amy enjoyed the sun a little too much because she badly burnt her legs and back!! 




The last observation with Fran is tomorrow. I'm feeling a little nervous but I'm feeling very organised and prepared and it's with a nice class, so fingers crossed all goes well! 

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