tuesday night with vicktor and family

tonight we went to dinner with vicktor, his wife and his two year old son.  vicktor is the 'teaching aide' in my class.  calling him a teaching aide is a joke as he is a master teacher and more than able to teach all my math and science classes by himself without my help - while in turn i often need his help.

most of my classes are split level.  instead of just teaching 12 year old math to eight kids...  i have to teach 12 old math to eight kids and 13 year old math to seven kids at the same time.  same with science (life and earth at the same time).  same with algebra/geometry.  incredibly hard work juggling everything and keeping each subject straight in my head.  sometimes i give math 13 answers to a math 12 kid and vice versa.

so having vicktor is amazing.  he is a good person. funny.  and a great teacher.  he pretty much has taken over teaching the math 13 and the life science.  allows me to focus on the kids that need the most help.

one of my students have me a gift certificate for two to the new mediterranean place in town (if you remember... we went there a couple of weeks ago for the first time with some embassy friends) so in order to thank vicktor for everything he does, we decided to all go together.

it was our first time to meet vicktor's wife.  super nice and sweet.  she only spoke a little english so it was fun trying to understand each other.  of course olive was the belle of the ball as usual.