Guilty recluse and Calvin

Lately I have been pretty bad about staying in my room a lot, especially after a stressful or long day at school. It doesn't really even have to be stressful I guess, really after any social interaction that I have with people I just feel mentally and physically exhausted. I think it is partly because of the amount of things I have to take in that are new is sometimes overwhelming, even though I may not always realize it. Even in Michigan I had days where I just wanted to hide in my room, but here it seems that it is more often. I have to fight it. Instead of writing these posts in my room I have been trying to do them sitting downstairs while the kids watch TV. I’m becoming a guilty recluse. For some reason I am having a hard time getting Venla to speak English with me. Sometimes she even goes so far as to ignore me and pretend I'm not there. She is avidly against learning English. She absolutely hates the classes that Sari wants her to go to. Sari has suggested that I tutor her, but that means that she will most likely hate me. A lot. Venla reminds me a lot of Calvin right now in how she becomes an intolerable pain when she doesn't want to do something.