The Blog of Natalie: Monday 3/12-Thursday 3/15

This week my teaching went pretty smoothly overall. With the youngest kids I've been working on the weather and school vocab. They are adorable when trying to say "What's the weather like?" and they keep getting rainy and windy mixed up (probably because they pronounce "rainy" as "wainy").

With the 8-9 year olds we're also working on school vocab and we've been reviewing the alphabet. They love to take turns standing up and reciting the alphabet for me (although many of them still get mixed up on the pronunciation of letters G-K...). I've been teaching the 9-10 year olds body vocab and we had a blast singing "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" again on Monday. I didn't have a second class with them this week because they were on a field trip. With the oldest kids, I have been working on telling time and saying what time they did things during the day (I go to school at 8:30am, I eat dinner at 7:30pm, etc.) and I sent out their penpal letters on Wednesday. I really doubt that I'll still be here by the time the letters come back, but Claude is going to continue them without me.

On Tuesday night, Alison stayed over and we stayed up late watching the Harry Potter musical. :)

On Wednesday we made chocolate chip cookies and then went to the beach with Margot.

However, when we arrived in Capbreton, it was gray, cloudy, and a bit chilly. Eep! We put our towels out on the sand and lied down anyways... and after about 15 minutes the sun began to peek through... and another 15 minutes later the sky was blue and the sun was out!

Photo: Hoping for sun...

Margot and I played frisbee for a while (avoiding the huge dump truck that kept bring loads of sand across the beach and dumping it into a huge pile...we weren't sure why) and then decided to go put our feet in the water.

Photo: Playing Frisbee!

Photo: Free entertainment (the dump truck got stuck in the sand at one point and everyone on the beach was watching it attempt to free itself!)

It was still pretty cold, but not as bad as typical Oregon Pacific water temperature!

Margot and I stripped down to our bathing suits and waded in a little further...Alison offered to take pictures and stayed out of the water. ;)

Well, after a relatively short time, we were both all the way in! It was quite cold, but once you got numb, it felt great!!!!

Photo: SWIMMING! IN MARCH!

When we finally decided to get out, we dried off on the beach and then went to buy some treats: chocolate ice cream for me, churros (deep-fried strips of dough) dipped in warm nutella for Alison and Margot! YUM!

Photo: Enjoying their snack...