End of the semester

Winter vacation is upon us! That means that most of the volunteers are leaving within the next few weeks. We had a goodbye dinner last week for our friend Dan, who left early (bye Dannnn). We were sad to see him go! The only ones of us staying for the next semester are one other volunteer here in Angol and one from about an hour away. Dan's host family made a little "Spanglish" corner in their kitchen, with flags and pictures of all of us to commemorate our many evenings there : )

Then this week was our last week of classes, just Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Since teachers had to have grades in by Tuesday, there hasn't been any new material in a while and this week especially we did nothing in class. Well, we did karaoke and watched movies and played Wii, but no class things. It was kind of fun though! I wanted to post a video of my segundos (sophomores) all getting into it when we were playing Just Dance, but it doesn't appear to be working. Just enjoy the image in your heads. 

Instead, here's one of my favorite students, who did his little English speech about me two weeks ago (from this same class of sophomores).  His English isn't the best but he cracks me up! 

My volunteer friends who are leaving had special goodbyes at their schools, but I can't stand the thought of saying bye to my students yet! Glad I get more time with them next semester.  So many of them have a ton of potential for English, but on top of that they're just so much fun to spend time with every day!