Ok, so it's been a little while since I posted. Did my first day of practicum, that night proceeded to get a stomach flu(I'll spare you the details) and was off sick for 3 days(max. time allowed) and went back to school on Friday(absolutely no recollection as to what I did that day btw). I've also had a change in plans of my future career. I realized that shift work is never going to work as a single parent and with the hours of daycare that I have. I'm also never going to make enough money as a MLA to afford to buy a house/car/vacation/savings etc. I've decided to go back to school to become an accountant. It's a 4 year degree which freaks me out a little, but then again the MLT program is 2 years plus I have to wait at least a year because i didn't get in this fall which will make it at least 3 years before i get in min. I've come to terms with the fact that I'm a paper pusher, I enjoy pushing paper and filling out forms etc. I'm also good with numbers and what not, so it's a good fit I think.

Going to Mexico in June or July. Not sure exactly as my training is the same dates as when I was supposed to go down so need to check if I can rearrange. I'm not bringing my son down this time, I'll bring him down at a later date. I think it's best that I see H. first and figure out the situation before I bring L. into it. Very much looking forward to it, really hoping it doesn't all go sideways. Really, really need to increase/improve my spanish!!

Why I Loved Teaching ESL for Suzy:

1. For her demonstration for the teachers in front of our students EXACTLY how to put the cap back on the whiteboard marker(included an actual demonstration of the "click" too!)
2. Implying/accusing us of wasting our whiteboard markers. All I can figure is that she thought that we colored in our entire board and then wrote in with our fingers.
3. Using my detective skills to find the one and only whiteboard eraser in the school.
4. Playing scrabble with tiles that had been combined from 3 scrabble boards. In other words, you had 3x the number of E's, no T's or L's and A's. Interesting to say the least.
5. Watching her do oral exams with the students and realizing that the student answered completely wrong and she didn't notice.
6. Watching her do her complicated grading system of checks and x's and come up with some random grade
7. Informing us months later that we couldn't take home blank tests as someone might get ahold of it and copy the test but we could bring home the same tests that the students had written in, to mark them.