Midterms Anyone?

That’s about all week five consisted of; midterm reviews, lots of studying, and midterms. In another month we will have finals and finish up our classes so we can start our directed research. On Friday we did host a dinner for all of our homestay families. It took all day to set up, but the outdoor classroom was transformed into a more or less banquet hall. We ate dinner and there was a DJ for the music. Some of the students did little performances for the families. There was a skit called “a day in the life of a gringo’ that involved a lot of (purposely) bad Spanish and it was pretty funny. We had a piñata for the kids that came. We let the youngest ones (2-4 years) go first without a blindfold, of course they did no damage, but everyone knows you let them go first to feel included. We than let this older girl go. She was standing in corner acting all shy and my friend (since I can’t speak Spanish) had to talk her into going. She said she would only go if we didn’t blindfold her. After she took stick, she just stood under the piñata for a minute and I wondered if she was really going to hit it. She then beat the thing so aggressively it only took four hits to knock it down. This was extremely frightening, because she seemed so shy and then so angry and egger to destroy the thing. I really didn’t know what to think of her.

We had our first weekend away this weekend, which is not a full weekend just getting Saturday and Sunday off as appose to just Sunday. All of the students went somewhere (mostly the beach), but I stayed at the center. I just wanted a day to myself to lie in a hammock by the pool reading my book. It was wonderful and I think I took at least six cat naps though out the day, being as hot as it was and how sleep deprived I was. Sunday I did homework and baked my mama’s cinnamon swirl bread. I had to put all three loafs in a large glass pan, because the kitchen doesn’t have bread pans. It took a little longer to bake, but turned out really good. And that’s about all I have to say about this week. Midterms were stressful, I think I did ok, but I haven’t gotten grades back yet, so we will see.