I woke up exceptionally tired today so after class I took a nap instead of going to the Tuxtla zoo. This ended up worked out well, because Sherrill is also going to Tuxtla tomorrow for an acupuncture appointment so I can follow her down.
Tinder update (never thought I’d be writing up one of these for my family): I’ve been talking to two girls in San Cristobal about meeting up this weekend. Tinder in Chiapas is much easier than in Madison, presumably because being a white, English-speaking American holds a bit more status here (I’ll take what I can get). In Wisconsin, the general rule-of-thumb seems to be that one in every two dates scheduled will nonetheless fail to happen, but I’d like to imagine that this won’t be the case in San Cristobal and I’ll get stuck in a elaborate, sitcom-esque scenario running back-and-forth across town, making increasingly flimsy excuses as I attempt navigate both dates at once. Who knows what will end up happening, but as always, I seek the path of wackiest hijinks.
In the evening, there was a (shall we say… chaotic) meeting at the Delmas Institute regarding the upcoming year. Luzma, the resource coordinator had been in contact with someone who had just tested positive for COVID, so she was wearing one of those big plastic masks on top of her regular mask and standing extra-far away, speaking only in a heavily-muffled Spanish. Gina, the class coordinator, had received her COVID shot a day ago and was at home dealing with a high fever, calling in via zoom. As perhaps the most bilingual among us, Three different people had Gina up on their phones, with both the sound and microphones turned on, so everything she said bounced around a couple of times and it was impossible to say anything on our end without creating a screeching feedback loop. The essence of the meeting was that, due to fears about the Delta variant, pretty much every family has requested that their children attend classes virtually, so we are going to start preparing curriculum under the assumption that classes will be taught mostly via Zoom. Vaccines are becoming available in Chiapas, so hopefully there will be a transition toward in-person classes. I also found out which classes I will be teaching; I have Basic 2, Advanced 2, and Conversational 1. The Basic and Advanced courses have a pretty well-laid-out curriculum, so those shouldn’t be too hard to plan for. The Conversational course is more open-ended and will require a bit more effort, but the additional freedom will be fun to work with.
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