Monday, march 30

After much anticipation, I finally got to find out more about what I'm going to be doing during my internship here. As some of you know, when I left the states, I still knew barely more than "well, they asked me to teach English." I could only guess what age level, which school, whether or not I'd be completely in charge of classes or be working as a teacher's aide, etc. Today was the day I finally got some answers. Alvaro picked us up only 2.5 hours after the original time we were to leave, and we went to Caluco for a bit.
I will be working at a school called Republica de China. I will be working as a teacher's aide for Don Carlos most of the week (at least, that's what it sounded like. I hope I'm not underestimating my workload).
I met the principal, the English teachers, and some of the other teachers at the school today. We discussed my plans, scheduling, and briefly went over the English topics this week. Starting at 7 tomorrow, I will begin my internship at Republica de China k-12 school in Caluco. I'll only be working with 7th graders through 2nd bachillerato (which I think is comparable to high school juniors or seniors) and so I will work M-TH 7:15am-12:15pm and then all day on Fridays. The school system is here is kind of confusing. I'll have to write a blog post about it when I figure it out.
The school's vision statement is this:

"Somos una institución comprometida con el propósito de formar y capacitar una niñez y juventud proactiva; para que puedan resolver y enfrentarse a la vida con responsabilidad."

I think the basic idea is this: 

"We are an institution committed to the purpose of forming and training proactive children so that they can make responsible decisions when they come face-to-face with life's opportunities."