I know I may look like a real person...

Holy crap, I did it. Well, kind of. I explained power three times in Spanish today, and at least one of the 50ish students that I explained it to even sort of understood, I think. And one is more than zero. (Incidentally, Europeans write the number one differently from how Americans write it. I try to copy them so the students will have one less thing to be confused about, but I only remember about half the time, which probably just confuses them more.) And, now no mores seminars! Just two more lectures and then the teaching part of this course will be over. And the administrative stuff can be done in the comfort of my office (i.e., not in front of 200 loud adolescents), so it barely even counts. And, in one of the seminars today, the students actually talked to me. They've talked to me before, of course, with questions here and there that they often ask at a time when they're supposed to be listening to someone else, but today they all had lots of questions (about boring stuff like grades and the final exam, but still), and then I realized that we were all sitting around talking and that I felt like a regular person instead of some kind of strange circus act. It was pretty cool.

Don't get me wrong, I'm mostly just ecstatic that the seminars are over. But ending them on a relatively-not-bad note is pretty nice, too.