Hey everyone! Thanks to all for the birthday wishes - it's always so nice to remember friends and family on special days. I just found out that my mother and two sisters will come to visit me in March - Yay!! What a good present. Oh, the other present I gave myself was an amazing farmer's tan.. you guys wouldn't believe it. And I've always one - usually from soccer - but I assure you, this one takes the cake. We went to the beach with some friends on Wednesday, but it's a local beach and not one for tourists so actual swimsuits are not acceptable.. so we go in with our scrub pants and t-shirts.
By the way, Adrian, from my last post, seems like he will, with time, be fine. He has started walking again and so hopefully there will not even be a lasting limp.
Linda, sitting next to me, is quite excited with a certain possibility for her future and would like to share with everyone that she could be going back, instead of to Iceland, to Denmark. Oh, the possibilities.
Speaking of possibilities, the date I set for when I would start thinking of my future is coming up in about a week and a half. Oh, scary. If anyone has any suggestions let me know. I think at the moment that I want to find a job before I go back to get a masters... but that's thinking about it all too much. I still have a week and a half to simply enjoy the present.. so that's what I'm going to do! Love to all!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Long past time
Here in Costa Rica it is starting to be summer. It rains only once in every few days and even then usually only for a short time and not in large quantities.. usually. I actually walked down the mountain today without sinking into any mud (which is also good because I didn't wear my boots). And we started at 4:30 this morning walking by the light of the moon (and some flashlights) - just thought I'd throw that in, too.
We are gearing up for a busy next few months. Every day it seems we get more and more demands on our time and services - which is soo great. We have started another 3 English class and quite a few more pre-youth and children's classes. And our Enrichment Center building is almost completed! Just a few more walls to put up and we will have a great place a little apart to study and have classes and keep all of our materials together. And it's on such a beautiful hill with a great view. In addition to proper classes, I have somehow been unofficially designated the math tutor (it's great but also soo frustrating! and not to mention trying to figure out math in spanish!) as well as for other subjects and for Ruhi books (often there are people who need to finish a few sections of a book or need to catch up to a point where they can continue with someone else). So, in large part, this is how I have spent my time the last few weeks - especially with the tutoring as the term of the school came to an end and everyone was studying for their exams. It was a successful term here in these schools - everyone in the colegio (high school) passed and all of the students in the 6th grade are graduating on the 20th!
A few days later (23rd or something) we are having visitors from El Salvador and while they are here we are having a "capacitacion" an intensive weekend of Ruhi. That will be an interesting experience - hosting 20 people to sleep and then cooking for more like 60+ for two meals a day. As a matter of fact, I'm bring up a large (large) load of groceries up with me in an effort to lighten the load a little bit for our trip up with everyone.
Unfortunately I do have some very sad news. A very very dear boy, Adrian, got bitten by a terciopelo (fer-de-lance) snake a few weeks ago. He was rushed as quickly as possible down the mountain to the nearest hospital but even going with all speed it took many many hours to reach any antivenom - much too long. He has been in the hospital for weeks now and we have had little news. He has been stable ever since we heard of the bite (it happened while we were in San Jose last time and didn't learn of it till days later when we returned) and a few days ago we learned that he has had an operation... though we don't know what kind. We heard that Don Jesus (the father) and Adrian were in good spirits so I hope that it wasn't an amputation. He should be coming back from the hospital soon. I have missed having him around - he was one of my very first friends here.
We are gearing up for a busy next few months. Every day it seems we get more and more demands on our time and services - which is soo great. We have started another 3 English class and quite a few more pre-youth and children's classes. And our Enrichment Center building is almost completed! Just a few more walls to put up and we will have a great place a little apart to study and have classes and keep all of our materials together. And it's on such a beautiful hill with a great view. In addition to proper classes, I have somehow been unofficially designated the math tutor (it's great but also soo frustrating! and not to mention trying to figure out math in spanish!) as well as for other subjects and for Ruhi books (often there are people who need to finish a few sections of a book or need to catch up to a point where they can continue with someone else). So, in large part, this is how I have spent my time the last few weeks - especially with the tutoring as the term of the school came to an end and everyone was studying for their exams. It was a successful term here in these schools - everyone in the colegio (high school) passed and all of the students in the 6th grade are graduating on the 20th!
A few days later (23rd or something) we are having visitors from El Salvador and while they are here we are having a "capacitacion" an intensive weekend of Ruhi. That will be an interesting experience - hosting 20 people to sleep and then cooking for more like 60+ for two meals a day. As a matter of fact, I'm bring up a large (large) load of groceries up with me in an effort to lighten the load a little bit for our trip up with everyone.
Unfortunately I do have some very sad news. A very very dear boy, Adrian, got bitten by a terciopelo (fer-de-lance) snake a few weeks ago. He was rushed as quickly as possible down the mountain to the nearest hospital but even going with all speed it took many many hours to reach any antivenom - much too long. He has been in the hospital for weeks now and we have had little news. He has been stable ever since we heard of the bite (it happened while we were in San Jose last time and didn't learn of it till days later when we returned) and a few days ago we learned that he has had an operation... though we don't know what kind. We heard that Don Jesus (the father) and Adrian were in good spirits so I hope that it wasn't an amputation. He should be coming back from the hospital soon. I have missed having him around - he was one of my very first friends here.
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