la semana penúltima

I can´t believe I only have a week left! The time went by so fast! The students had their English exams all this week and for the most part I think most of them went really well, except for the math exam. My cooperating teacher was not there on Wednesday because she was at a convention and the students decided that because she wasn´t there that meant they could talk and share answers during an exam. It didn´t matter how many times I asked them to stop talking or almost took away their tests they just didn´t stop talking so now they all have to retake their math test. They definitely were not happy to hear that. It´s so hard to stay mad at them though because so much of what they do is so funny. During the exam they offered to pay me for the answers and started chanting Miss Katie to encourage me to do it. Then they asked me ¿porque estás enojada Miss Katie? Why are you mad Miss Katie, and with completely serious faces. One of my students even told me to have a sense of humor. I´m going to miss them so much. Yesterday 6B had their taller, workshop about prehispanic culture. Their group is the Toltecas, which don´t know very much about but they kids are interested in learning more which is always good. I spent most of the day in the workshop with them 2 hours for each half of the class to make our project. I really don´t know how to explain what it is so I will just have to take a picture of it and post it up next week. It was a lot of fun spending so much time with my students outside of the academic setting and just talking to them and listening to them talk to each other. They have started telling me not to go and asking me why I can´t stay. I really would love to come back and teach here in Mexico for a year or two after I graduate and I´m told their might be a program through Varmond to do that. I will definitely be looking into that before I leave so I have the information in case I can someday return to work here. I am going to miss it here so much. Everyone has been so welcoming of me and I´ve been having so much fun learning about the culture and getting to know the students and the city. The people here are really great, and the city is wonderful, not mention it will be hard to leave the warm weather. :) I got a great compliment today though from one of my coordinators, she told me my accent had changed that it was stronger, that made me feel that this trip was definitely worth it if only for that reason, not to mention the thousands of other reasons I´m so grateful I had this opportunity.