yippee, another email address. just what i have always wanted. willdavis@bianni.unistmo.edu.mx now, don´t go out and rush to send me an email (i know all of you were poised to add this to some address book somewhere) just because i have a new email. really. don´t rush. but hurry. or just post a comment. it is not hard. rather easy actually. tron, i am thinking of you here. (what is that line from the simpsons when homer joins lollapalooza, ¨cypress hill, i am looking at you...¨ who knows).

the good news is i feel better today. the bad news is our boss added a new class yesterday. sweet. just one, so now sally has three classes, 15 hrs a week of teaching, and arash and i have extra tutoring hours. really it works out bad for all of us because now arash and i feel bad that sally has so much work and we kind of skipped out on it. well, i mean, i kind of feel bad. sort of. at least when she is in the room i say i feel bad. does that count?

my boss is nuts. she shows up yesterday, forces the three english profs to sit through a 1.5 hour meeting that is entirely in spanish during which she decides that there will be an extra class of level 1 because there are over 31 students in each class. good that she did not choose to even discuss this possibility with us. we had to make it out of the rapid spanish that the people around us were speaking. it is like being a little kid and having the adults talk about you. you know that they are talking about you and that the results probably won´t be too good, but you cannot quite make out the entire meaning. then we had 15 minutes to prepare for the final class of the day. i think my boss is the most unorganized person in a position of power ever. she asked me yesterday if i had any friends i could invite down here to teach. good that she was thinking of this, oh, i don´t know, two months ago. i am not sure if she is actually trying to be incompetent or if it is just a natural biproduct of her personality.

some days i think i would like to stay here another six months rather than dealing with finding a new city, job, etc. some days... when i got here we were allowed 45 photocopies a week for our classes, and this did not include photocopies for tests. now, we have 60 photocopies a month and this number does include any tests we want copied. right. i was hoping for a test every six teaching days. now i have to write everything on the board. teachers, you will know this, but for everyone else, imagine what all the students might be doing while you are writing the questions on the board. not to say that all students are cheaters, but for simple fill-in-the-blank sentence completion tests, multiple-guess tests, etc. the temptation to just ask another student what the answer might be seems quite high. maybe i think the worst of people.

i am going to buy a frig this weekend! my roomate francisco has decided to go halves with me. yeehaw. cold water, butter, eggs, cheese, here i come!

my other roomate is nuts. he is aloof and odd and moody and no longer a person i invest any time in at all. oh well.