Craving a challenge.

Could life get any easier than it already was? Well yeah...kinda.

This past week, Leslie and I switched our schedules so that I would now work Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and now she is working Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
(It's hard to believe that this marks the half-way point of this year here).

Well, with my old schedule, I had a lot of English classes where I would prepare activities and conversation questions for small groups that I would take out of the class for part of the time. I had a lot of room for creativity and preparing. Now, with my new schedule, I have a lot of the bilingual social sciences, math, and social studies classes and only one English class. The teachers in these other classes have all of the planning for the bilingual periods pretty much already done. So they give me the worksheets and I go to class to read them out loud and help with pronunciation. Easy, right? Yes. My planning time has gone now practically to zero.

Now I know I really shouldn't be complaining about this.  I've even dubbed this year my "stress detox" year and there are so many worse things to complain about in the world. But, I need to be challenged in some way.  I need to make more goals for myself. I need to be more involved and proactive in my life over here. Although, I'm a bit at a loss as to how to do this.

I've already completed my goal of finding the best croquetas in town (which I actually found the first week I was here, but I had to check other places just to make sure).  I have been reading more. Yes, I've even been reading some news more.  I've been going on walks. I've been improving my Spanish by trying to talk more.
But none of these things really challenge me.
I want to travel more, but a tight budget tends to restrict that. I want to take dance classes, but there aren't really any offered in my small town that I have found. Intercambios sound awesome, but again, small town.

Any ideas? I could really use some?