Fall

It's been a very, very busy October.  I've been volunteering with AMIGOS which entails interviewing prospective volunteers, creating handbooks and web pages, attending a 4-day training in Houston, and next weekend we have our first training of the year.  I also attended the Washington Association for Foreign Language Teachers conference in Pasco for 2 days and presented AMIGOS as one of the break-out sessions.

I had the opportunity to go to see Saving Aimee with Ruth, Amanda, Tracy and Daniel this week - I had no idea before the show who "Aimee" was.  The actress had a great voice!

Noé and I went to Beaver Lake haunted forest this week to see some of my students scaring people.  The event really wasn't scary except for the black horses that followed us and cut us off in the dark woods.  Tonight we'll go to Maris Farms's haunted corn maze with some friends, which will be a good scare.

At school the kids really dressed up, and we had them make sugar skulls and other Mexican altar and skeleton projects.  Then we combined all the arts from the Spanish classes and made altars for November 1-2, including pictures that families submitted of deceased people.  It really looked cool!

Me and María with our Halloween costumes

Mini-altars art project for 7th graders (a project I thought up)