we are better in the midwest?

On my 40 min walks to work I have a lot of time to think about random things. A lot of the time it has nothing to do with anything and I just phase in and out, but sometimes my thoughts have something interesting in them. I was thinking about something my friend mentioned to me and then I have confirmed on facebook. Almost every American I know here, Fullbright, Peacecorps or teacher is from the midwest. I know people from Illinois, a few from Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. I make up another of the Big Ten (sports reference) being from Iowa. I wonder if there is some correlation to all this, how people from the midwest really do care more? Maybe we actually do more than say we just want to help and we get out there and actually do try. This is probably just me boasting a bit about being from the midwest and having a small sample size to back up my statement, but it feels good. Its humorous that all the people from the coasts are "hip and modern" and usually more "politically involved" I say though, where are you? Are you back home right now working on America? Well I will say this, since I left the place you sure did let it all go to hell. Thats another biased comment with no facts to back it up but you cant say anything about it. Unless you read this, comment on it and then I will delete it... so ha ha I win. Anyways I was just thinking about this on the way to work today and it is very humorous that every American I meet here is almost always from the middle of America.

first day of work

Today was my first day of work. It went much better than I anticipated. Admittedly I was assuming that my students would be old business owners who did not want to speak freely and would look at me in contempt. Thankfully my entire class was late 20 to 30 somethings that were all very polite, knew what I was talking about and the entire class was more of a conversation. This put me a little at ease and we ended up having a good time. Hopefully they are learning some of the material that I am trying to teach. The company I work for has its own teaching style and an outline of what I am supposed to teach. We are told to deviate to make the material based more about them and I tried to do that. Anyways all the students skills in english seem a little above what the material is that I am trying to teach, but o well it is still helping them. 

other than that nothing new has been going on here. I have my apartment to myself this last week since my new roommate is out of the country and the old one finally moved out. The funny thing about my old roommate moving out was that the night before he brought a bunch of people over to drink at smoke at like 4 in the morning and then they stayed to 6ish. At the time I was pissed but I kept telling myself that he was leaving and I could handle one more night. Anyways the next morning he wakes me up early and thanks to the girl that stayed over with him, he had a lot of his stuff packed up. Now I found it funny that the girl helping him move his stuff out knew we were moving it to his girlfriends place. I must give the guy credit that he had this girl, who he sleeps with regularly, help him move his stuff to his girlfriends place.