These pictures are one night playing Uno with Oscar. He is four years old and probably one of my favorite people in all of Costa Rica. The other is from the beginning of our canyoning tour.
Wow, it’s been a while. I have been really busy with teaching and things to turn in for OSU. I am happy to say that I am turning in my last thing for OSU on Monday, and being a good student I am already done! I can’t explain how relieved I am to get my 65 page teacher work sample done!
Since it has been a little while, I will catch you up on the last few days. Last weekend we went to Turrialba, which was a beautiful town that not too many tourists know about. We don’t consider ourselves tourists since we have been here for 10 weeks now, but as soon as we open our mouths and speak our broken Spanish, it is pretty obvious. We stayed there for one night and on Saturday morning we went on a canyoning tour. We got to rappel down waterfalls and take the zipline to go from waterfall to waterfall. I had definitely never done anything like it before and we all thoroughly enjoyed it! I had only been rappelling once in my life, which was in middle school and I cried the whole time down the mountain. At first I was not too thrilled about facing my fears, but after the first waterfall slipping, sliding, and falling I enjoyed it. My legs were beat up and my hands were bleeding from the ropes when we were done, but it was one of my favorite things we have done here. Then we finished with a little lunch, rice and beans of course and headed back to our hotel. We just hung out and played spades while it rained and then went and walked around the town. We struck gold at a store called El Rey, it was basically like a dollar store. I bought some candy bars to try, some were gross and some were amazing. It was a nice and relaxing weekend where we all had a good time and got to hang out.
This week at school the kids have been doing presentations over projects they have done. After sitting through 120 of those, I was pretty wiped out and I have realized I never want to put myself through that again. Some were good and some I could barely keep my eyes open. Next week will be my last week actually teaching and then I have one week to help out and I am home! It’s weird that this adventure is coming to an end, but I am definitely ready to come home. I have enjoyed my time here, but like Dorothy said, “there is no place like home.” Until then I am going to enjoy my last few days here and make the most of my time left. Tonight we are heading to Liberia and going on some more adventures! We are staying in a hotel that costs 8 dollars a night, so Lord knows what that will be like, however it can’t be any worse than some places we have been. Oh the joys of being a poor college student, but soon I will be a wealthy teacher…sike.
Enjoy your weekend!
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