More Triangles!

Oh man!! I taught again today! I did NOT see that coming! Though... if I thought about it, I should have known that it might happen. When I got to Colegio Claretiano this morning, Profesor Aguilar told me that I would pick up where I left off yesterday, but with a different group of students. He also decided that he was just going to... leave. Instead of being in the class with me, as he usually is, he left with one of the students to work with him individually (which I was very happy to see, because this student has been struggling a lot lately). So, I was left on my own, teaching in Spanish. I had to hold back some laughter, because the situation just stuck me as a bit comical. I had not prepared at all to do these problems because I knew that yesterday we would not get that far during class. So, I had never seen these problems before. Moreover, Profesor Aguilar usually makes a PowerPoint that contains all the problems AND solutions. But it didn't take me very long to discover that the solutions to most of these problems... weren't in the PowerPoint. So I had to wing it a bit.

For the first short bit of class, Profesor Aguilar taught the students a few formulas about how to find the measure of an angle formed by the angle bisectors of a triangle. I'm VERY glad he did this, because, I did NOT know those formulas. I would have solved the problems very differently, but it's probably good that I was able to help the students do the problems the way Profesor Aguilar wanted them to be done.

The lesson went pretty well! I learned from yesterday to not let all of the students shout out answers at the same time. I really enjoy teaching and I'm so grateful for the opportunity to teach at Colegio Claretiano!! It struck me again today how difficult it is to jump into someone else's classroom sometimes. For example, today, about halfway through the lesson, the students started asking me for motivation. Profesor Aguilar often shows a funny youtube video or something during the class to animate the students and give them a short break from math. I... had nothing like that prepared. So, instead, I told them about hyperbolic geometry!! I don't think they appreciated it quite as much as I do... but they did seem slightly interested.

Also, you probably thing I'm spelling "professor" wrong. Sort of. I've been writing it in Spanish without really thinking. But yes, I am aware that in English, there are two 's's in "professor".

Hey I'm going to cooking class today! Yay!

Oh God, thank You for the opportunity to teach and learn at Colegio Claretiano. Thank You for mi familia here in Arequipa, for the Calvin group, for the friends that I have made at the university. Jesus, You have blessed me so much through these people. Please pour Your presence upon them and fill them with Your joy!!