August 25, 2010

  • Trento time

    Here I am, back in Trento. It's strange to be back again! Trento will always feel like my first Italian home, being as it is the first place I ever lived in Italy (not counting the month spent in Perugia, obviously!). But it feels different now. Although I keep bumping in to people I know, I don't know them like I did. Lovely to see old faces again though :)

    The course this time is mornings only, so we are free from midday on which is nice, but actually quite a long time to pass when you're trying to spend as little money as possible! Luckily I have a few good books with me!

    I am teaching the youngest class again, 8-10 years old. It's half way between the two previous ones in that I have seven kids in my class this time. 3 girls, 4 boys. They're all really nice kids so it's been really enjoyable so far. The boys are typically boisterous but actually they do all get down to the work I set and it's going quickly at school. I'm able to re-use most things (as we're doing the same topics) that I did in the second camp in June. I've got one boy in my class who was there on my first camp as well, so I was worried I wouldn't be able to overlap, but actually I did a lot of new stuff in the second camp and am bringing new stuff in again, so it's okay. So far so good.

    We're staying in the hostel which isn't as nice as being in a family. I've been invited to have lunch with my host family from the second camp tomorrow which I'm really excited about! It'll be lovely to see them again! I understand why we couldn't really be in host families this time (as we're only working a half day), and being in the hostel isn't the end of the world. Only 3 more nights there anyway as then Will (the other teacher who is in the hostel) and I are going to stay with the lovely Serena, another teacher who worked with us on the first camp. So that'll be MUCH MUCH better and hopefully as we'll be able to cook and stuff we'll save a bit of money too (not being able to cook in the hostel is one of the major downsides).

    Right, better go. I'm in an internet cafe as this time we've got no access at school. I can get on the Trento free wireless in town but I didn't bring my laptop with me so am just using it on my phone which isn't ideal for updating blogs etc! So I don't know when I will next be on....

    Ciao for now!