a normal week

This week was a "normal week," meaning that I actually had to go to school all 4 days and there were no random assemblies about buddhism or boogers.  However, a normal week is never boring! In one of my classes of 4 year olds, we worked on Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.  Since I'm such a fantastic and experienced teacher, they're really starting to master it and I've graduated them to fast-paced rendition of Ankles, Elbows, Feet, and Seat (whatever, it rhymes and they don't know the difference).  As you can imagine, the choreography to this version is quite something.  There's booty-smacking and hip shaking and all kinds of awesome straight from a Sisqo video.  In this particular class there is a boy who is half the size of all the other kids, which by my calculations makes him 11 inches tall.  He may or may not be a "little person" (is this still the PC way to say it?), but seeing as I'm not sure we'll just call him tiny, awkward, and adorable.  After the song was finished I went to stop the CD and saw the teacher laughing so hard that tears were rolling down her face.  Loudly, in Spanish, she says, "OH MY GOD, did you see Hector dancing?! It's HILARIOUS! You HAVE to play the song again!"  So, not wanting to disobey the seño, I of course played track number 4 again.  Although cruel, she was right, it was awesome.  Not 100% sure on this one, but I'm pretty sure it's not okay to repeat an activity for the sake of laughing at a child?  Thoughts?

Another normal part of my normal week was an uncomfortable British English conversation.  While practicing "Do you like...?" and "Yes, I like..." in a private lesson, my bright pupil asked, "Do you like rubbers?" while smiling and pointing at her eraser.  Kids say the darndest things.  

Off to Granada in the morning, if anyone wants a "my friend went to the Alhambra and I all got was this lousy t-shirt" shirt, let me know.