It´s been a while since I´ve writen. It has been super busy here the past few weeks! We´ve started model school, which is where we practice teaching full 45 minute lessons to a classroom full of students. It´s definitely been an interesting learning experience! The first day I was so nervous and self conscious about my portuguese that I pretty much just read off of my lesson plan, word for word. Since the first day, I´ve gotten much more comfortable. The students that show up to model school in my class are really well behaved and excited about organic chemistry (imagine that!). It seems really bizzare though to be teaching regras de Markovnikov to 16 year olds. It will be much different teaching to a class of 60 when most of the students don´t want to be there, but this has been good practice.

We had site announcements and a fake Thanksgiving last week! I could not be more excited about my placement. I will be moving to a small village just outside of Inhanbane. It´s about a 6 hour drive north of where I am now and right on the coast. I´ll be living with a bio teacher from my training group, and I think we´ll get along really well! We´ve been told our house has electricity and a water faucet outside, so pretty fancy for Africa! I´m pretty sure this is the only time in my live I´ll be living within a 15 min walk of a beach, so I am so excited! I´ll be teaching chemistry in a secondary school, but I´m not sure yet which grade. I can´t wait to get to site and meet neighbors and teachers and everything! If anyone needs a tropical beach vacation, please come visit! The Professionals go to Mozambique? Kurt, will you please get on that?

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I was definitely missing family and friends. 1 week left of training! I will post my new address when I get it in a week or two. Thanks everyone for the mail! Sorry, I just realized that there are like 20 exclamation points in this post. Excessive.