english classes

alrighty. english classes schedule has been made. monday, wednesday, friday i will be there from 3-4 helping people who are currently taking english classes with their homework and answering questions, etc. each day will be a different level, 7th and 8th grade, 3rd and 4th grade, and something like older high school level im not quite sure, their school system is different than ours i dont really understand it yet. tuesday and thursday will be the advanced group, from 4-530. that can be any age, depending on what classes theyve had and how much they know. so for those days i'll be doing a lot more active teaching as far as having a plan and activities than the other days. should be fun! i have a book that ms medellin and ms brethorst made when they were teaching down here. so that will be extremely helpful, also I have another book with audio cd's that they had here.

unrelated, but this morning i was in the church office, at first making the plan for the classes, but then hanging out with andreina and jose antonio. ruth came in, who i thought had already left for caracas, to fill out and print off a couple forms that she needed for applying for the visa. when we finished typing in all of the info, every time we went to print it it went blank. it was really frustrating and i dont know why it isnt working. it made me realize that random technical difficulties are just yet another hurdle the people here have when theyre trying to get visas. it's a really long and rediculous process, they were telling me stories of showing up to the office and after waiting in a long, hot line, etc, the officer would see a little mistake or something just didnt quite work right on the computer and they'd so oh sorry, come back another day. on the other hand, for me to get here was so easy. when i told them that all i had to do was buy my plane ticket and fill out the immigration form on the plan here, they were astonished. i dont have to do anything to get into their country, but for them to come to ours is a hugely daunting process.

by the way, the time stamp for this blog is not right. not sure why, but it's two hours behind. it did this while stile in mn too. i definitely was not blogging at 630 this morning, but that's what it says. also, it's off by a half hour. it says 628, but i actually posted the last one at 858. the two hours thing, who knows, but venezuela is a half hour ahead of mn, a half hour behind east coast time. apparently the president was feeling very powerful one day and decided to change time. so yes. just so ya know. it's 119 right now, not whatever it'll say.