Long time, no write. What a surprise, right? So I thought that I might have some extra time this week, but then I had to go and lose my flash drive which I had conveniently forgotten to back up for the past two weeks, so now I have plenty to do! Also, I am not feeling very well today. Both of those things are great for those of you reading this blog--they both mean I need to stay home and stay near the computer (although I should probably be re-doing all the work I lost instead of writing in my blog. I already did that for a few hours, time for something a bit different)!
If you can't tell, I'm a little stressed right now. But next weekend I get to go to the country with Mauricio and his family! Hopefully I am feeling better by then... I think the sickness is a combination of a bunch of things--stress, less-than-healthy food, extreme pollution, cold weather, and not enough exercise. Although I did join a gym! And I go about every other day, but I must say that I could probably stand to go more often. I was quite proud of myself for running 3k on my first try. I know that's not any great feat, but I'm proud of myself! Haha, I'll let you know how I progress... I'm also hoping to find some time to get into some aerobics classes or something, although as of right now, most of them are during my own class time. They do have spinning, though! I am a bit nervous about that; it seems a bit intense! A lot of the people at this gym are pretty intense themselves--there are some guys there that could probably knock me over with their pinky! I feel like such a lightweight there! But I suppose it's good motivation. I am not even going to go into the details of my endeavours into weight training. If you think my running is embarrassing... yea, we're not going to go there. But I guess that's why I joined the gym, right?
So, let's see. What else have I been up to? Other than a lot of working (and now doing it all again since the loss of my pen drive), I've been thinking a lot about my next step. I know it might be a bit preemptive, but I can't help it! I guess I'm kind of always planning out the next step. Like the fact that there are 70 days left until the end of the semester. Or that there are 37 days until Scott comes. And only 9 days until the next testing cycle! I'm nervous about the next test; I hope the students do better than last time. Last time, I had only about three weeks to teach all the material. This time, I will have had about five, so I think they will do much better. But that also concerns me a bit--to motivate them, I promised that I would buy a jar a peanut butter for anyone who gets more than a 6,5 (out of 7,0). Not many people did that on the last test, so I didn't think I would have to buy much peanut butter. However, it seems like the students are grasping the concepts much better this time--I could be in some trouble now!! Anyone want to donate some peanut butter? :-)
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