Ahhhhh, finally caught up to today.
We visited what is called PABO, a teaching college slightly north of Maastricht. We were given an overview of the school's philosophy by a lady named Ingrid who showed us around the building. It was certainly not a sprawling campus like Maryland, but rather one huge building that was very modern inside.
The first class we visited was a drama class that was surprisingly fun. He had some Dutch students pair up with us to do some improv exercises with the focus on how to teach drama to kids. The activities ended up being really enjoyable and the Dutch students were once again great at English. After drama, our group split up into two and some went to a Math class and some went to Music. I lucked out at got Music - much better than arithmetic. That was also great and I'm not even exaggerating about this. In music, we were tasked with taking a simple song and teach it to the class as if they were small children. Naturally, my group had a song about potty training and I used my few years of subpar piano playing to accompany the class in "Little Tommy Tinker." The album is coming out next month featuring Dana Hansen on the claves.
We left the school just a few hours ago and we are just relaxing back at the hotel right now and we are going into the city tonight. I am eager to see what the rest of the trip has in store for me.
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