Thursday 23

It's my brother's birthday. I sent him a message and I'm glad he was able to get it.
In the morning I went swimming, then I went to Angie's classes, the students have prepared some questions specially for me and I have to answer them, what's difficult about it is to speak clearly and slowly enough so they can understand me. It's an odd feeling, to see that if you want people to understand you, you have to speak English though they are learning Spanish. I even don't speak much Spanish with Angie, and she is a Spanish teacher. Conclusion if I want to make sure that they are getting the right ideas I must speak English, with Spanish they can misunderstand me. My English is better than my Spanish.
After lunch we had a Faculty council meeting, they had to discuss a problem they had with a student and decide if they will accept the honor council recommendation or not. It was very interesting to see how they deal with behaviour problems and what they consider a serious fault or not.
I'm still trying to get material for Phyllis lesson, I've picked up some pictures to show where Borges used to live and things he used lo like. I'm planning a Power Point presentation and having the students read The immortal in advance, so then in class we can just discuss a short paragraph about immortality, mortality or how frail may life may be.
In the afternoon, we had a special activity, some police officers from Roanoke PD came to speak about the dangers of internet, what may happen to you if you upload photographs to blogs like facebook or those things. When I was there I had the impression that it was OK, but then I asked Nick his opinion, and he said it was just the same presentation they had done last year, that they haven't brought anything new, it was boring and useless.
On the way home, Nick told her mum that he had a problem at school because he didn't bring his homework for Drama. (para recordar como reaccionaron sobre la falta)