"Content" Workshops

Today is Friday and Friday means "content" workshops. And that means extended waste of my time. The problem is that there are very few Spanish Fellows in the program. By my count no more than about 75. There are only two classes, one at my university and one class at another university, which means there are only two Fellow Advisers for the Spanish Fellows, mine and the other one. The problem with this is that the Fellow Advisers lead each of the content workshops, but the teaching fellows program decided there would be four content workshops each Friday. So what happens is that I, and all the other Spanish Fellows too, get two content workshops that are good for us, and then two that are for E.S.L. teachers. The fellowship likes to pretend that these are good for both since we are all language teachers, but they are lying. Today in one of my "content" workshops I learned the name of the test E.S.L students take to assess their English language level, the LAB-R in case you were wondering. What a ridiculous waste of my time.

I arrived around ten minutes late and I almost ditched my last class, but since I had to wait for a friend to go out with after the workshops and I couldn't find her and convince her to ditch with me, I stayed for the full four hours. The last class wasn't that bad because I played E.S.L. jeopardy with a cute English guy. Like, an actual guy from England, not someone teaching English. It was weird because he said oh hey I'm my name and I said Hi, I'm my name and then he goes, in his British accent, "Are you English?" I was like... wait, that's what I'm supposed to ask. I've actually gotten that on multiple occasions previously, which is weird. I always thought people were just crazy, but to get that from an actual English person must mean it's true. I don't realize I'm doing that at all. Kind of fun I guess.

I'm having a lot of problems with one boy in my summer school class, but I'll post about that at another time I think. I took a nap at 7:30 and woke up about 15 minutes ago. I think I'm going to go back to sleep for the night now. This is really getting exhausting, only one/two more weeks to go. Yay!