Maths!?

Although I had pretty much given up hope to ever finding a job without having my residencia (which is a little card that permits you to live and work in Costa Rica), I continued applying for jobs.
I had applied for a job as a bilingual secretary at a small private Christian school. But when the director called me to come for an interview, she had asked me if I also would be willing to teach Maths and Science. I was totally surprised because I don't have a teaching degree. But I had already been looking into the possibility of teaching and was therefore very happy about this possibility.
So, I went to the interview. But I didn't really think that I would get the job because I don't only not have a teaching degree, but I also never studied maths. Yes, I did study Business Studies which includes maths, but that is definitely not the same.
However, during the interview the director seemed to really like me and offered me the job as a part-time Maths teacher although I have never been baptised and I am not regularly attending a church here. (Those two factors are usually very important for Christian schools.)
Now one week of observing is over and I got to know all my students and the books. The 7th grade consists of 8 hyperactive students who also have learning abilities. That is going to be the toughest class to teach. But they are not mean or anything like that; just loud! The 8th grade consists of 2 nice and friendly students. The 9th grade only has one girl who mostly works on her own. The 10th grade consists of 2 nice girls who are not great at maths, but have very cute personalities. And the 11th grade consists of one boy. However, he is the hardest to teach because I cannot understand the Bachillerato book he is using. (The Bachillerato is taken at the end of high school.) Although the maths in it is not that complicated, I find it very hard to figure out what the book is trying to tell me. Plus it is in Spanish. Although I can usually understand conversations and newspaper articles in Spanish, it's much more difficult to understand a maths book.
However, all the other courses I will be teaching in English which makes it so much easier for me. From now on I will have to spend lots of time preparing my classes every week. And since the school is in San Josè and Cristian lives in Guanacaste, I will also have to travel back and worth every 3-4 days. During my days in San José I'll be living with Cristian's family. I am not so happy about the fact that I will now be without Cristian and Nala for 3 or 4 days a week, but I hope that the experience that I will gain there, will help me to find a full-time teaching job in the future.
There is just one probleme left: I had talked to the director about my problem of having to travel back and forth and although she said that she understands and that she will only have me at the school for 3 days, the schedule is still not in the way I would want it. And since she is only paying me half a salary, I expect her to make a schedule for me that allows me to spend 4 days with Cristian and Nala. But the last schedule she had for me would require me to stay in San José for 4 days. Some of you now might think that there is no way to do it differently because other courses might be involved. BUT that is not true because I myself worked out a version of a schedule where I would only be working three days. But she wasn't really interested in looking at it. Let's see what she can figure out during the next few days.