What have I been up to?

It was our friend Jane's birthday so we went to Indian food and had doughnuts for dessert!

I have finally begun teaching and I think I am going to have some fun this year with my students...not that I didn't last year. This year I am teaching adults who are taking English classes for their job or while they are attending university. Right now I only have three "classes" that I meet with in a week. I say "classes" because three times a week for an hour and a half I have a class with one woman, a chemical engineer at that, and we go through the book. It is such a lax class. Unfortunately the book is kinda boring so she has found a way to make class exciting, for 15 minutes out of class we talk about a different subject. Tonight we will be talking about travel. My other classes are pretty sweet. They are very low and I receive a lot of confused looks but I think I am starting to tone it down. I am excited to see what this year has to hold with my students!

The weekends have been so nice getting to attend fellowship with my peers which is usually followed by lunch with the group. From there we decide what our plans are for the rest of the day. This past weekend everyone decided to go home except for a few of us. One woman in our group mentioned a French bakery that she enjoys going to. Lily and I thought it would be nice to have some dessert so we told her we would go. She said it was a long way to ride our bikes but we thought we we would try it out. It's a good thing that food there was AMAZING because we biked there 35 minutes each way! Now to some of you, that might not seems like a lot but for a beginner like me...it was torture! It will definitely be a place for special occasions because I do not plan on biking out there every Sunday.

Later on that night Lily and I decided we wanted to go bowling and texted the gang only to find out no one could go. Plan B: See The Last Song. If you don't know what it is about, let's just say Miley Cyrus is the star. However it left us with some good memories.

Monday consisted of lunch at Dawn's and a trip over to the bike shop, which was unsuccessful. That night everyone was free to hang out and we ended up going bowling. We got an extra treat when we arrived because they were putting on a dance show of some sort. The weekend finally came to a close and we are back in the routine of teaching. I feel like I am not completely in the grove yet but after a few weeks I know I will get there.

Bowling and our coffee shop. Notice that Jane's name has been changed to "Vane" and Pedro's to "Perro". We had a few laughs over those.

Oh and side note...I think our coffee shop is a family of believers. The woman wears a cross necklace and her son was wearing a shirt that said, "I have 99 problems but faith ain't one." I am excited to get to know them!