You know you're a FLES teacher when...

Since this week is a short one thanks to Thanksgiving I don't have a What's Working post. Instead I hope to entertain you with the following short list.

You know you're a FLES teacher when...

• You come home with white board markers in your pockets and there are vocab cards in your purse.
• People suspect you of being a hoarder because you save everything from your trips abroad to the target culture - receipts, bus tickets, grocery store ads, subway maps, brochures, business cards etc.
• Kids come up to you in the grocery and say ¡Hola!
• Your English is interspersed with the TL and you don´t notice.
• Your English is interspersed with the TL and your family and friends no longer notice either.
• You watch commercials on Univision/Telemundo and immediately start trying to find them on youtube. (They are never there!)
• You sing songs like Los días de la semana or Los colores in the shower.
• You can fit an entire classroom's worth of supplies on a cart or in a bag.
• You have so many students that you start calling all the boys Carlos and all the girls Maria because that´s easier than memorizing 700 names.
• The only person who knows where you are in the building is you. (And you only know because you have a triple color-coded schedule that you consult after each class.)
• You get jealous that the Art & PE teachers always get cupcakes for student birthdays but you never seem to. (Probably because the students couldn't find you.)

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