Que paso?

I don't know how it happened but my first week teaching is already complete! Time is absolutely flying by. Now that my students have the classroom routines down and we're settled in I can start some real teaching! We are still waiting on a shipment of math textbooks and science kits (I guess that's the downside to teaching overseas... mostly everything is ordered internationally and that means it takes forever to get here even when it's planned ahead). So for now I'm using the math worksheets that I spent hours and hours scanning in to the computer back in March when I was student teaching. I'm so glad I thought about doing that... it has saved me quite a headache!

During my time in Maracaibo, I have realized that this city of 3 million feels more like a small town sometimes. Last week I was at the supermarket standing next to a woman who was complaining about the bad quality of the bananas. I replied, "Si, claro" and then a guy standing next to her looked at me and said: "Are you American?" Haha, he picked me out from just two words! But we got to talking and found out that he lived in the States for 18 years, part of which he was in Bloomington, IL. He asked what I was doing in Maracaibo and I told him I worked at EBV only to find out that he went there when he was a child. We talked a little more and before we parted ways him mom said that if I need anything to please call her, and to come over for dinner sometime! We exchanged numbers and she asked where I lived and we discovered that they live in the building right next to mine. Small, small world. Since then I have been over to their place for tea and the son, Napo, took me to a park on the lake. Sometime this week she is going to take me to a plant store and help me pick out some flowers for my little window garden. I'm incredibly lucky to have met such a great family who wants to adopt an American girl in to their lives. :)