I'm really enjoying teaching my English classes.  Susanna (one of the education coordinators), Agustina (one of the secretaries) and myself are taking a signing class with one of the interpreters from ALPI.  Last week we had a class on Monday after my English class got out.  We were going to have signing class on Mondays and Wednesdays for half an hour after my English class but it's been changed to just Mondays for an hour.  When we met with Karla the interpreter, she told me to bring the vocabulary that I was teaching to my students.  As of now, I can say days of the week, seasons, man, woman, boy, girl, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, the colors, some emotions/adjectives, ser (to be) signs depend on the situation, and then estar (to be) has one sign.  

Last week in class, my deaf students told me that they have a unique sign for each of their names so they don't have to sign the whole name using the alphabet.  My other class is doing very well and they are progressing very quickly.  We have done a bunch of present tense verbs such as to go, to talk, to walk, to dance, to say, to do/make (hacer).  They understand using an auxiliary verb in the negative as well. This past Thursday we looked at people's personalities and the words associated with personalities.  I gave my students a worksheet and we went through the words one by one so that they understood what they meant and then we did an activity where they had to write whether the personality trait was good or bad and put them in a chart.  After they were finished, we talked about their answers.  

 This has been really good practice for me and I look forward to the rest of the class that I have with them.  There is the possibility that we might be starting a third class on Fridays but I haven't heard a lot about that in awhile so I have to talk to Graciela about that today.