School is hard!!!
So I have not been in school in a while and seem to have forgotten that yes, indeed you do have to work. The classes are great and I am learning a lot, but we have a ton of projects and teaching to do outside of class, and it is a little overwhelming. We have been learning a lot about grammer which I love, and phonetics which I am not a fan of. We need to learn the phonetic alphabet, which is a bunch of crazy symbols that stand for different sounds. The problem is that our teacher is English, so the words she gave us as examples of each sound only work if you have an English accent, so I need to practice talking like a Brit before tackling the alphabet.
Rachel and took our clothes to the Laundermat today and the owner is one of our students, a favorite of both of ours. It was really neat to see one of the students out in the community using his English. The school we go to offers free English classes to the community, which we get to practice teaching. It is a really cool set up and seems to provide a good opportunity for people in the community to learn English.