Vacation is over :(

Do you know what that means?  That means I can torture you again with more homework! :)
Don't worry -- I know that you really are excited for all of the writing and listening I am going to make you do!

I am going to put up your homework assignments for the next month here.  This way, there is no confusion, and we can continue to work in class without discussing the homework.

We only have 3 weeks of class before another long weekend!  So let's divide it up by weeks.

Week 1

Reading:  Prisoner of Zenda - Read to page 41 (start of chapter 8) for Thursday.  I think everyone is on different pages from before Easter, so let's just make it easy.
We will discuss everything from the book on Thursday.

Writing:  Your family has just won a luxury car in a competition. Write an email to your
English friend to tell her the good news. Say what you had to do to win the car
and explain where you will drive next month.  Due Thursday

Listening:  Like/Would like/Be like  AND Either/Neither

Week 2

Reading:  Prisoner of Zenda -- Chp 8 and 9 for Tuesday, and 10 for Thursday

Writing: You have just done well at an important sports event. Write a letter to a relative
saying what you had to do at the event. Say what you plan to do in the future in
this sport and what you will have to do if you want to be very successful.  Due Thursday.

Listening: Imperatives AND Relative Clauses

Week 3


Reading:  Prisoner of Zenda -- Chp 11 and 12 for Tuesday, and 13 for Thursday -- FINISH THE BOOK!


Writing: Write an article for a family magazine giving some ideas about how young
people can save money. Say what you have done personally in the past and
what you are planning to buy in the future.  Due Tuesday.

Listening: Adverb Placement


And that's it until MAY!!! :)

If you have any questions about this list of assignments, let me know in class.  I hope to see all of you tonight, I have missed you all! :)

I miss all of you!!

Hello class!

As promised, I am updating my blog from Norway!  I am having a fantastic time!  I can’t believe I am on HOLIDAY!

Well, let me start from the beginning.  I left Seville on Saturday morning at 9:30am.  So early!  I was travelling all day!  I had to take a train from Utrera to Seville, and then at 11:10, I had a train to Malaga.  After, I had to wait 3 hours just to check in and get to my flight.  It felt like forever!  I had been travelling to Malaga from 9:30am-2:45pm.  I was already exhausted, and I had to take a 4.5 hour flight at 6pm.

The flight was fantastic though!!  I was sitting next to a Norwegian man who had a B2 Spanish book with him!  I got so curious to see what B2 level Spanish was, and maybe if I was B2.  I finally got the guts to ask him if I could take a look.  (To get the guts to do something means to have courage)  We started talking, and didn’t stop.  We became friends through the flight.  He was very funny, and we started watching movies on my laptop and making jokes about living in Spain.  Luckily, we found out that we’re both taking the plane back on the 7^th!  We’re going to ask the front desk to put us together on the plane so we can watch movies.  Maybe I’ve made a friend for life!

When I got into Trondheim, I was supposed to take the bus to some student center, I don’t remember what it’s called, and Tor, my Norwegian friend from the plane, told me he would help me find the bus stop.  When he asked the bus driver though, he said that that stop doesn’t run so late at night!  I thought I was in trouble, but Tor said ‘no problem, I’ll bring you.  We have to take the bus to where my mum is coming to get me, and she’ll drive you there.’.  How friendly is that!!!!  He really bent over backwards to help me, and I really appreciated it!  (To bend over backwards to help somebody means to do everything you can do to help them.)

I got in to my friend’s house, and I am having such a lovely time.  I fell asleep pretty fast on Saturday night, but I have been busy since.  I am staying with four guys, two of them were my friends before, but I just met the other two when I got here.  We really have a lot of fun, they’re super nice and they’ve really made me feel at home.  I have been relaxing, and enjoying myself with my new friends.

I even made a snowman (I’ll put the picture below), and took a walk around the city up to an old fort (an old war building used for protecting an area) where you could see the entire city surrounded by mountains.  I also have learned a lot about Norwegian.  I still can’t speak any, but my friend was telling me about how in Norway the dialects are so different between towns and areas because everything is separated by mountains, so languages developed differently.  Can you imagine?  It’s like Spain and Mexico… The language changed so much through just being divided, but this happens just in towns.  He said meeting people from other areas in Norway makes communication really difficult because they use words he’s never even heard of.  Being an English teacher, this type of thing really peaks my interest.  (To peak smb’s interest means it really interests them)

Tomorrow he’s taking me shopping in town.  You all know how much I love Shopping!  I will try to find some good Norwegian sweets to bring to class.  I will say though, Norway is FREEZING!  My boots are already soaked (very very wet) with snow, and I am wearing two pairs of leggings because I don’t own any pants!!

I really hope all of you are having a fantastic holiday.  Is the weather nice?  I hope all of you have been drinking a lot of beer for me.  If any of you have photos of your lovely holiday, send them to me and I will put them on the blog.

Is it strange?  I miss our English Class!  I can’t wait to hear from all of you about your holiday, and hopefully how wonderful it was.

He's super diva, isn't he?  Look at those arms stretched out.  'Oh hey girl hey!'

I’ll try to write again soon.

I know you’re on holiday….. but I am an English teacher, aren’t I?  I have to post at least something English educational!!!