Spontaneous: that is one word that could sum up this weekend perfectly. We didn’t really have a plan the whole weekend except on Friday when we knew where we would be staying. We hopped on a bus Friday night and headed for Liberia. We didn’t really know what to expect when we got there but right by the bus stop I spotted McDonalds golden arches so I was ecstatic and dreaming of a McPollo and some papas fritas. It’s amazing at home I don’t really like McDonalds, but I crave it here. We found our hotel, which is by far the sickest place we have stayed since we have been here. Our room consisted of two bunk beds and nothing else, the only thing we could do was laugh at how horrible of a place it was. There were bugs, spiders and my favorite was the writing on the wall that said, “Citizen K was here.” We were all troopers and managed to survive.
The next day we woke up and decided we wanted to get far away from this place, so we went to the bus stop found a bus going to the beach and jumped on.
We got to Flamingo Beach in Guanacaste and then had to figure out where to stay. We spotted an awesome resort and knew we wouldn’t be able to afford it but tried to sweet talk the guy anyway. I tried to get him down to a low price and failed, so we were off to find another place to stay. We then walked and found another resort, proceeded to sweet talk the lady and stayed at an amazing resort with air conditioning, cable and pools! The place was amazing and it felt like Heaven compared to the place we stayed the night before. We swam in the pools Saturday and Sunday where I got the worst sun burn that I have got since being here. I swear I put on 60 SPF, but I guess it washed off in the water. It was pretty bad and the kids at school called me Miss Tomato all day. Oh how I love being made fun of by 7th graders. Then Sunday after hanging out by the pool we got on the bus for six hours and made our way back home. We got back pretty late and were exhausted, so much for a nice relaxing weekend. But it was well worth it!
Monday our professor from OSU came to observe us teach and everything went well. I am now done with observations, and only have two weeks left of teaching. Hopefully my last week here will be really easy since I won’t be teaching anymore and I can just hang out and help the kids with their projects.
We got to Flamingo Beach in Guanacaste and then had to figure out where to stay. We spotted an awesome resort and knew we wouldn’t be able to afford it but tried to sweet talk the guy anyway. I tried to get him down to a low price and failed, so we were off to find another place to stay. We then walked and found another resort, proceeded to sweet talk the lady and stayed at an amazing resort with air conditioning, cable and pools! The place was amazing and it felt like Heaven compared to the place we stayed the night before. We swam in the pools Saturday and Sunday where I got the worst sun burn that I have got since being here. I swear I put on 60 SPF, but I guess it washed off in the water. It was pretty bad and the kids at school called me Miss Tomato all day. Oh how I love being made fun of by 7th graders. Then Sunday after hanging out by the pool we got on the bus for six hours and made our way back home. We got back pretty late and were exhausted, so much for a nice relaxing weekend. But it was well worth it!
Monday our professor from OSU came to observe us teach and everything went well. I am now done with observations, and only have two weeks left of teaching. Hopefully my last week here will be really easy since I won’t be teaching anymore and I can just hang out and help the kids with their projects.
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