I'm honestly still exhausted from our trip. Like, I'm so glad we came home early, and that I've had the weekend to recover, but I still don't feel 100% back to the way I was before we left. The trip, while wonderful, was kind of draining. (I'm still catching up on sleep and still trying to get rid of my cravings for all kinds of American foods - sleeping and eating might make up the majority of my senior project hours for this week. Nah, I'm kidding. Mostly.)
Given that, I didn't do much today. We did rack up over 200 hours towards our project while we were gone, so there's not much pressure to get time in there. This week is about prepping for our presentation. Or, as it's turning out to be, presentations.
On Wednesday, I'm going to speak to my Spanish class and the other Honors IV class about my time in Guatemala. Part of the goal for our project was to share what we learned, and this is an excellent opportunity to do that! I also may be going to Lassiter High School, where my aunt is an English teacher, to present to some Spanish classes there. That would be either Thursday or Friday if it works out. I really do want to do AP Prep/Review this week; review days and mock exams may overlap the Lassiter presentations unless I can reschedule something. It's really important to me that I do well on those AP tests. I'll work on making everything work.
The thing I'm most excited about that I did today was retake my Vanderbilt Language Placement test for Spanish. I thought it'd be fun to put some sort of numerical value to how much I'd improved over the course of two short weeks, so I took the test a first time before I left, and then again today. On the first test, I scored a 480 in 17 minutes. Today, I got a 573 in 11 minutes! That's nearly a one hundred point and five minute improvement. It's amazing what language immersion can do! I've officially placed into the highest Spanish class you can place into: a 3000 level writing course.
Here's to a productive last week!
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