First "Week" of School

So, I've finished my first week of school. However, a "week" for me is only two days. The English teacher at my school is only there Tuesdays and Thursdays (the other days she's teaching at two other nearby schools), and since I'm an English teaching assistant, I'm only there the days she is. I can't complain about a 10-hour work week.

The school only has twenty-eight students and there seems to be five teachers-- one for the older students (ages nine to twelve), one for the younger students (ages three to eight), a music teacher, the English teachers, and a French teacher who I've never met since they have French on the days they don't have English.

For me to get from my apartment to the school would take about an hour and two or three buses, so I take a bus halfway to a town (Siete Palmas) where some of the teachers live and one of them drives me the rest of the way. Another teacher drops me off at the same bus stop on her way home.

Which is very convenient! Because! On my first day of work I sat at a bus stop for twenty minutes only to realize it was out of service. I had to take a taxi to meet the teacher in Siete Palmas and so that was easy.

However. On my second day of work I caught the bus (yay!) but then missed my stop (boo!) and the bus took off DOWN THE HIGHWAY and the next stop was not for uhh quite some time. So I had to text that teacher and ask her to come rescue me from some shopping center and she was VERY KIND about it!

So the bad news is I am absolutely terrible at navigating public transport (and potentially life in general), and the good news is the teachers who give me rides are incredibly nice. And now I know how to get to that shopping center!

In other news our apartment still isn't finished even though we've been living here a week and also I am getting sick! But it's all part of the ~adventure~! Live, laughs, love, miss the bus, get sick, etc.

Sincerely,

cassie

I can't figure out how to caption photos on mobile (my laptop is still broken!) but here is the view from a window at my school.