Work and play

Oh! I realized I dont think I've actually blogged anything about the SKIP work yet... (which is one of the main reasons why I am here)...

So.. most of you know I'm a social worker.. but with my spanish how it is... i've started teaching english this week. I'll also be involved with coordinating the summer camp program... and i'm involved with translating stuff in english (website, newsletters, etc.) ...

So, I teach Monday Tuesday and Wednesday mornings... on afternoons I either tutor mathmatics or other random subjects... (actually the other day i assisted with a vocabulary/analogy assignment!! and the two girls came up to me today and said they got a really good grade on it! hah... thank goodness for my trusty translator!!)... it's been interesting trying to remember how to find common denominators and do word problems when i'm still just learning spanish... AND THEN try to explain it in spanish so they understand... UF!!

On Saturdays... well, so, on saturday (this is as far as i understand, so i may be wrong).. there are volunteer teachers (or interns? from universities)... so they sometimes are there for classes, sometimes not... (also some of the "paid" teachers are not paid for months, sometimes years, at a time, or paid very little amounts (like s/20 for the month which comes out to like $7), so they also are sometimes not there)... so on saturdays, the SKIP volunteers fill in whereever is needed... from 8-12...

On Thursdays and some weekday afternoons, I do administrative stuff at home...proofreading/translating stuff into english (newsletters, letters, website, etc)...

Fridays.. not quite sure yet.. I'll probably be at the SKIP office/school doing whatever needs to be done..

-------------AND PLAY----------------------

So, I haven't had much time for going out at all.. since any free time i have, i need to be studying spanish.. but we went out to one club the other night... there was reggaeton (sp?), cumbia, salsa, some 90s remixes from the US... not really my sort of choice for dance music.. though I did find out that they have electronica music at one club that another volunteer and i are going to check out... hoping theres good electronica music there (cuz i'm picky in that area too...)

Brentt's coming over (MY FIRST VISITOR!!! and YAY it's BRENTT!) sometime at the end of January, so we'll get to go do some fun stuff, cuz i'll be taking some time off work... =)