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Tuesday, 27 November

Did not sleep well again last night due to some wacked-out dreams just like last night. I am not sure, but they may have been the same dreams. I am thinking that I am just stressed about what is going on and it is effecting my dreams. It may be due to the heat in the room, but I do not think so.

Breakfast today was granola, yogurt and fruit. I do not know if I am going to be able to eat this much every day. It started to rain during breakfast and Meilady had an extra umbrella that I could borrow. Turns out Katie was waiting for me at the corner with a cab, so I did not half to walk up the hill in the rain. The class started with the first warm-up by Dorothy and Judy where we had to organize ourselves by the city we live in. Point of this is to get us comfortable for the lesson, bring up review topics, and/or prepare students for the next lesson. I am presenting a warm-up on Friday with Katie and Angela and we have no idea what we are doing yet.

Continue reading Day 2 of Classes

I have only taken a few pictures and have not loaded them onto the web yet. I will try to start taking more and post them as soon as I have time.

Sunday morning a group of us walked up the hill to find the school. On the way down we found a gym and checked it out. It looks like a lot of use are going to use it. We then checked out of the hostel and then walked around the city a bit. We ran into Dorothy and she joined us. At lunch, we met up with two more students that had just gotten into town. After lunch, we called our host families and then went our separate ways to meet them. My call to my family was bad for the mom does not speak spanish – luckily Angela was there and helped me out. I found out later that night that the school did not tell Meilady (the mom) that I was coming which explains why she was acting a little weird on the phone. When I showed up, Meilady and Rolindo were waiting outside and greeted me. I was sweating a lot due to the humidity and carrying all of my luggage. She joked that it was muy frio and this relaxed me a bit for she was laid back and joking.

Side note: I wrote an earlier post about my host family. A week before I left I was sent a note that that family was no longer available and was re-assigned to Meilady and Rolindo.

Continue reading Meeting the Host Family

Warning – I have been keeping an electronic journal since arriving in costa rica and a lot of what the future posts will just be copy/paste from the journal – so it is going to be long since I have already spent the time to write it.

With my departure date quickly approaching family and friends have hosted going away parties for me. Below the fold are pictures from a family gathering at my dads and another party after my last day of work.

Continue reading Going away fiestas