Orange bananas and a crapload of work

Damn! Just when I thought that I'd get by on my charming personality, I get bombarded with a shitload of work to do in order to get certified as a TEFL teacher. Ugh. So much work to do!

My next mini lesson is Friday morning and I have to create something for the students to read and comprehend. I can take it from a book or write my own, but I'll have to create a full lesson plan and write follow-up notes. And then my next mini lesson is Tuesday afternoon at 4, which means I'll be in school from 9-6. In addition to that, we have to observe 5 classes taught by real TEFL teachers at our school and write papers on all of them -- all due by next Friday. That means I'll be living at school for the next week. Yay.

Yes, I have a little "type A" in me, so lesson planning isn't completely abhorrent, but this style of teaching is so new to me that the work actually seems difficult. I guess nothing here is going to be easy, eh?

After class I went to Mega, Cusco's grocery store. It's always fun shopping in markets in other countries -- and while I enjoy the more traditional markets, sometimes you just need a place to buy soy milk and cereal. And Mega's the place for that!

I spent 109 soles (about $40) on a few more basics: tuna, nuts and dried fruit for Becca, cereal (in these tiny bags), body wash, cheese, more manjar (you can never have too much manjar), bread and bananas. When I peeled one of the bananas on the taxi ride home, I discovered that they were orange. Um, ok. It still tasted like a banana -- I just closed my eyes when I ate it.

Looks like normal bananas....


But it's not!


Some of my other purchases


Don't mock the mac and cheese