Do you know Amy Winehouse?

Two days of practical teaching down! It’s going really well, despite the fact that my class is at 7AM in my school’s freezing basement. Today we talked about forming questions using to be and do. My favorite moment:

Me: Hippolito, sentence with do.
Hippolito: Do you know Amy Winehouse?
Me: Haha, good! Do you know Amy Winehouse?
Hippolito: She is a famous singer with a good sound.
Me: Yes, but do you know her?
Hippolito: (sadly) No, Teacher.

Today in class we celebrated our trainer Phil’s birthday.

  

My wonderful TEFL class. The woman in the white shirt is Sabrina, our main trainer.

Backtracking a little. Here are some photos from last week. Nobody I asked knew the reason behind this parade, nor did anybody really seem to care—this stuff seems to happen at least biweekly here.

Obligatory:

And here you go, Dad: me in my Peruvian hat. The pictures of me eating cuy will have to wait… although it will happen, I promise.

And now the big news (that most of you already know). I will be moving in October to Viña del Mar, Chile, to live and work with my wonderful cousin Jaimie and her family. I am very, very excited!