Notre Dame

So the first two weeks of this adventure were spent at Notre Dame taking classes to learn how to teach English to English language learners...ELL's. Not sure how much I actually learned as I basically spent the entire two weeks either recovering from a stomach flu, a bad reaction to medication, two ear infections, or just the worst hangover of my life.

I probably met nearly 100 different people during my time there, many of them over a few beers and loud music at the Backer (johnny k's of Notre Dame). In fact that is where I met two of my future chilean people for the first time.

I did learn a lot about my future roomates. All of them, outside of Lauren, are accomplished more athletically than a few D-3 intramural championships, they like to run, and they definitely like to dance.

Hands down, my favorite classroom moment was when me and Brian gave a presentation on one of the chapters using Malibu as our inspiration. Did we get an A for it....probably not but the expressions on all the old ladies' faces, especially the nun, made it all worth it. oh yeah, and we incorporated this video into our presentation. I dare anyone to do the same.

I left Notre Dame with some more knowledge of how to teach english considering I had none to begin with, a greater appreciation for ND and the Backer, more hours logged dancing in two weeks than the entire previous 2 years combined, and still some sort of stomach flu.