September Already?

I really can't believe that it is September already, and that in 5 days I will have been here for a month! At the same time it feels like an eternity since I have seen Levi, so actually in that regard time is moving quite slowly.

Anyway today I put together the next lesson, inspired by Levi and his amazing displays of affection. Julie, one of the trainers, said that we should really choose to teach things that we like in the next few days, because we should have fun while we can with our students. Keeping that in mind, I thought "well, what makes me happy" and the answer was immediate, so then I thought well, how can I teach all sorts of mushy love stuff and still pull in some grammar? So it hit me. I am going to teach how to write a love letter!

I ran it by Karina, the other trainer, and it was given the "Hmmm... MAY-beeee" treatment, so I have revised it a little. First we are going to warm up talking about if they have boy/girlfriends, or if they have ever loved someone. Then we will listen to Willie Nelson's Always On My Mind which will then be discussed, followed by another listen and fill-in-the- blank exercise. We will then talk about ways we talk about lovers, using phrases like "always on my mind," "give a second chance," "love of my life," you can come up with tons and you get the picture.

Next we talk about if they have ever wanted to say something and didn't, and how you can tell someone you love them. Then we will talk about sending flowers and how to do that, and how to write the note that goes with it. They will practice calling a flower shop (pretend) and ordering flowers for a loved one.

Then the final activity, if we get to it, is helping a fictional Harry write a love letter to his luvah. I am really looking forward to a morning of romance!!!

At the end of the day Ian and I got onto the internet and found an apartment that we are wild about, so we are really excited and will be living in it for four months starting next Friday night. It is $375 a month each, but it has everything included (heat, water, electricity, cleaning, cable...) and is furnished and in an awesome location. We are really psyched. Crazy thing is we have to pay for it all up front, in cash. So we are walking in next week with $4000 US dollars between the 2 of us. WOW! But it should be great and I am really exctied. It was a shining moment in my otherwise quite gray day.

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