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for reasons unbeknownst to me, my tia cancelled day care today so i went with rachel to her placement. she is an english teacher's aide for grades 1-6. rachel helps her by coming up with creative lesson plans and writing up quizzes (which -prior to her arrival- they didn't have).

the thing is, the teacher's english isn't all that good, so its hard for rachel to figure out whats expected of her sometimes. she spends all the time between classes teaching the teacher. anyway, the kids are sweet and completely infatuated with rachel so they try hard in class to impress her.

it was interesting spending the day in such a different environment. i realized that in our completely seperate ways, rachel and i are having relatively similar experiences. i mean that only in the sense that we both struggle with the language barrier, mild confusion as to what's expected of us, and the overwhelming desire to do more every day than is phsyically possible. my wonderful day at school was topped off with the 5th and 6th graders trying to teach us how to dance after their classes were over.