week 3

Finished my third week of class. I think this week's group of students was the most evenly leveled. Obviously it is extremely difficult to always have 3-4 students at exactly the same level, but this week we really were. We were also all teachers! Our new student was a French teacher. And the bilingual sped teacher from last week is still here and will be here with me next week too. It's been so nice to have one constant companion. We're going shopping together on Monday!

This week we worked on present and imperfect subjunctive and next week we finish subjunctive! Feeling like I have a better grasp on it now, but definitely still need practice. It is so hard to fully grasp something that doesn't exist in English.

Each week you get a different teacher, but next week we get my teacher from the first week again so that will be great. I really like her. 

Can't believe next week is my last week. It has been an amazing experience and I've loved digging deeper into exactly what I needed to study. 

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