Hasta luego, Quetzaltenango!

Phew, just finished my Last Spanish Class, y estoy saturada con el subjunctivo presente!

I still have some Shopping to do for my classroom, its harder, but more interesting, to only buy things if I can think of how I´ll use them in a lesson. Have some idea about building of details vs having one large central problem-question, tone and mood, symbolism, metaphor. Also, rereading Zen and the Art of Motorcycles turned out to be useful in terms of thinking about quality.

Coming here, I thought that volunteering in the art classroom would be a transformational experience, but actually, it was just sort of lame. Nothing I saw could be used in an English class. My tejido lessons were interesting, in that they gave me uninterrupted time to think about Pirsigian Quality. But really, thats just another way of saying that weaving is BORING.

At the Fellowship for Teachers meeting I met a woman who was planning on buying backstrap looms for her 1st grade classroom so she could teach the kids how to weave. Having spent the time with the loom, I have to wonder how THATS going to go. A loom is basically a collection of sticks and some rope. Furthermore, setting up the loom in preparation for weaving is incredibly painsaking. Well, I´m sure I´m not the only one whose fellowship time did not go exactly as planned.

Tomorrow I leave for Lago de Atitlan, and a week from tomorrow I leave for NY. I think Im ready to go. Being in another country, even under easy circumstances like these, gets a little tiring after a while.

I´m dreaming in Spanish every night, and fantasizing about salad during the day.