Yesterday was English Day at the school and it was great! It was A LOT of work and I went home exhausted, but I am glad we did it. As you all know, the students had been preparing for a few weeks for the Acto Civico. All the students did an awesome job and we actually had a really good turnout of parents too! I had a couple of parents express how impressed they were with what the students could do. Before the Acto Civico, each English teacher had a room with a different activity. I had origami (I make a mean penguin by the way), Michelle had dance, Jessica had a game room and Susy had Bingo. We started the activities for the morning kids (half of our kids come in the morning and the other half in the afternoon) at 10am. The students were given a "passport" which they had to carry with them throughout the morning. After they completed each rotation, they would get a stamp on their passport. Than, at the end, if they had all four stamps they received a raffle ticket. At the end of the Acto Civico, we raffled off a prize. Than, after the Acto Civico, we did the same thing for the afternoon kids. I was basically running around from 10am to about 2:30pm. It was worth, it though, and the kids really enjoyed it.
Next week, I teach Monday and Tuesday and than have the rest of the week off. There is actually a rumor that we will not be teaching on Tuesday too, because the teachers might be going on strike that day. Apparently they have not been getting paid and are not too happy about that! I am not sure what will come of it but we will see I guess.
I don't really have anything else to report. Things are pretty tranquilo right now. I hope everyone is doing well at home!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Rain, rain go away...
...and please dont come another day!
It has been raining a lot this past week! Earlier this week, I didn´t even hear my alarm go off due to the pounding rain on my tin roof and the earsplitting thundering going on outside! It was crazy. Luckily, no one is able to sleep past 6 a.m. in Costa Rica, so I still woke up in plenty of time to go to school. Than, it started to pour on Thursday afternoon and didn´t stop until almost the same time the next day. It POURED for almost 24 hours straight. The road to my house turned into a river, ankle deep.
I also signed up at the gym this past week. It is super tiny, but has most of the machines I use and also offers aerobics and pilates classes. I have to say, signing up at a gym here is way easier than signing up at a gym in the States. I walked in, told them I wanted to sign up for a month and paid. There was no start up fee, contract, tour of the gym (maybe because you could see all the gym had to offer standing there at the front desk?), nothing. I didn´t even receive a card or anything saying that I was a ¨member¨for the month. Ah, the easines...
School is going well. Last week I was not in class because I was finishing my second week of my TEFL certification. On Monday, all of my students were super excited that I was back. I even had a 6th grader tell me they missed me, which I guess (according to the Tica teacher) is huge. It was nice to be back, though. We were testing, so it was not the most interesting of weeks, but we did practice a lot for English Day. I also had a student tell me as one of his answers to his oral test that he ¨poops things in his backpack¨. It was supposed to be ¨put things in his backpack¨but he got a little confused I guess. I laughed.
I have quite a few breaks coming up here in October. I am off of school Oct. 8-12 and than again on the 21-24. There are also rumors of school closing for good on November 22. lots of down time...hopefully that gym membership will work out!
love to you all!
It has been raining a lot this past week! Earlier this week, I didn´t even hear my alarm go off due to the pounding rain on my tin roof and the earsplitting thundering going on outside! It was crazy. Luckily, no one is able to sleep past 6 a.m. in Costa Rica, so I still woke up in plenty of time to go to school. Than, it started to pour on Thursday afternoon and didn´t stop until almost the same time the next day. It POURED for almost 24 hours straight. The road to my house turned into a river, ankle deep.
I also signed up at the gym this past week. It is super tiny, but has most of the machines I use and also offers aerobics and pilates classes. I have to say, signing up at a gym here is way easier than signing up at a gym in the States. I walked in, told them I wanted to sign up for a month and paid. There was no start up fee, contract, tour of the gym (maybe because you could see all the gym had to offer standing there at the front desk?), nothing. I didn´t even receive a card or anything saying that I was a ¨member¨for the month. Ah, the easines...
School is going well. Last week I was not in class because I was finishing my second week of my TEFL certification. On Monday, all of my students were super excited that I was back. I even had a 6th grader tell me they missed me, which I guess (according to the Tica teacher) is huge. It was nice to be back, though. We were testing, so it was not the most interesting of weeks, but we did practice a lot for English Day. I also had a student tell me as one of his answers to his oral test that he ¨poops things in his backpack¨. It was supposed to be ¨put things in his backpack¨but he got a little confused I guess. I laughed.
I have quite a few breaks coming up here in October. I am off of school Oct. 8-12 and than again on the 21-24. There are also rumors of school closing for good on November 22. lots of down time...hopefully that gym membership will work out!
love to you all!
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