First Week Craziness

For our first week of teaching, we have to do an internship with other Totus Tuus teachers. We trained with the missionaries for the Archdiocese of Atlanta while we were in Cullman, and they happened to not have a parish for internship purposes. They decided to just go with us while we interned. We ended up having FOUR teams of missionaries (16 people) working at the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in downtown Nashville this week, and it was crazy! Each team had a day of teaching, and we sort of shadowed the other teachers on the days we weren't teaching. In some ways, it was really nice to not have to have all of my lesson plans done in time for the first week, but in many ways, it was more of a hassle. The kids got pretty confused because they had a different teacher everyday, and the overall lack of central authority was more than I could handle. It was so hard to be organized with so many different people and opinions and ways of doing things. I absolutely cannot wait for next week so I can just have team time and have my own class!
We had two girl host families and two guy host families this week, so I have been at a house with three other girls. The family is wonderful; they have five beautiful blonde children and one on the way, and they're so holy! They really are great people, but we've had some problems with the living arrangements. Katy and I have been sharing an air mattress, and it has a slow leak. The host family dad has usually blown it back up for us, but when he didn't blow it up, he left the air pump in the room. The only problem is that you have to haul the mattress out to the car to blow it up because the charger only works in cars. The walkway to get to our car is very narrow, plus we're girls trying to carry a queen size mattress. When he didn't blow it up, Katy and I just got over it and slept pretty much on the floor. Needless to say, we haven't gotten much sleep this week. On top of that, the host families all live pretty far away from the church because the church is in the downtown area. We've lost about an hour of sleep every night because we've gotten back late and have had to get up early.
The worst part of it all is that the room we're staying in has a bug problem. One night when we walked in, there was a roach on our bed. A few nights ago, a bug fell on Katy's face while she was sleeping. Madeline was making her bed one morning and found a mystery bug under her pillow that looked like a roach with spider legs. Today we found a cricket and a slug, and there have been random little things in the shower. As I was typing this blog post (in the dark), a mosquito crawled across my body. I thought it was a spider, and I jumped off the bed. Overall, it's just been a bad experience.
Silver lining for it all: I'm pretty much best friends with my teamie now. Go team bonding!