On day three we finally had our students (project groups) in class for the first time, and it went really well. We had a lot of fun and I was able to get to know them a lot better. It was so much fun having 2+ hours with these students that I have been talking to for the previous couple of months on Facebook, seeing them work in person was just a great thing to witness.
We decided on our team name, Super Matthew's Squad! Which I love that they wanted to name the team after me, I almost cried in the middle of class! After that we had a snack, and then went back to our classroom where we started working on our team cheer, which is going to be fricken awesome!!! Especially with my awesometastic students involved!!
When class was over we moved on to the auditorium for our very first assembly, where we danced and sang and made fools of ourselves. It was awesome, we played a giant game of Simon Says where two separate students won, a boy Juan Marco and a girl who I have yet to meet yet.
After assembly we headed back to the hotel, and went to the mall to watch team USA lose in futbol and eat some grub. Since I was feeling slightly under the weather I was mostly in a fog, and was so happy to get back to the hotel and pass out.
Today however, or day 5 as it were...we went to school like normal after breakfast and a quick trip to the mall, where I had this delicious chicken and cheese filled Coxinhas, which was amazing.
After the mall we went to school! Where while we waited for the classroom keys around half of the students and three other students decided to kick around a soccer ball (and any US friends that are reading this, you have no idea how good these kids are with kicking a ball around. It is amazing.) and just goofing off a bit. 
Once we arrived in our classroom we did some small activities to get us pumped up, before we each made a four corners drawing, where we had to draw our dream job, favorite food, favorite place, and favorite tv show/movie/book/etc. Which I believe went pretty well, my students seemed to enjoy it at least! Once this was finished I asked my kids to take me on a tour of the school, and to tell me about their favorite places on campus. The campus is awesome, they took me over to this little forest that was exceptionally beautiful, a place one of my students told me has almost one of every plant found in Santa Catarina (the state I am located in).
Eventually we found ourselves located in the "Blue Mushroom" before our snack of the day, where we did this weird game called Suitcase, where we had a few different articles of clothing that we had to quickly change into and run in a circle all the way around to our team partner where we had to strip them off and then our partner had to repeat the process. Needless to say my team (Colleen and I) won hands down because we are amazing!
Then we received our EFL groups, and we went back to my classroom to get to know each other better. Did a general ball toss, what we want to receive from the program, name, etc. went on to animals and colors when Mort decided to join in. After that we did the selfie game, where you draw yourself and then randomly give them to other students and you have to find who it belongs to in the class.
Then we had an awesome assembly! We had so much more improvement from the other students then the day before, the stage was filled to the brim with everyone trying to dance and sing together (we broke a mic) and everything was hot and sticky but amazing and fun.
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