How has my week been?  Well, let's see, not only have I got lost three times this week alone but it's only Thursday and I already feel like the walking dead. The icing on the cake though was when I realized I was teaching the wrong student.

I teach two brothers, Tomas and Leandro. Tomas is 8, Leandro is 10. Tomas is a beginner; Leandro an upper intermediate student. I play word games with Tomas. I have Leandro reading Roald Dahl's original "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Today Tomas was supposed to play a modified version of a board game where, depending on which space he landed on, he gave examples of different parts of speech and then put them together to form sentences. Leandro was supposed to complete story maps on the previous chapter and continue reading the next chapter.

I was amazed by Tomas' sudden ability not only to understand everything I was saying to him without having to clarify it in Spanish but with the quickness with which he responded. Huh, he must have been tired the other day? I was then stunned when he told me that the activity was too easy and subsequently a little hurt when he told me my lesson was boring.

Then his brother came home from piano lessons and came in for his English lesson. I was struck for a second by the fact that he was so much smaller than his younger brother but suddenly realized that HE was the younger brother and I had been giving his beginner level lesson to his older, more advanced brother. God in Heaven... I'm fired! LOL!