Monday, February 10, 2014

It was back to the school routine.  After breakfast, I caught the 6:30 bus with Zoe while the other two girls caught the 6:45 bus.  I’ve been trained too well in the “10 minutes early is on time” mantra.  After an uneventful ride to school, I worked on a People Bingo ice-breaker game.  I’m sure the kids will be all over it!  Afterwards, we had a welcome assembly for the 9^th Graders as they enter high school.  We were a little early to the assembly, but as the students entered they exclaimed “iHola, profe!”  I could definitely get used to being called a professor!  The assembly itself was incredibly boring, but I had a good time watching the students interact with each other and perform skits that I only partially understood.  Nonetheless, I’m looking forward to working with them later this week.  I spent most of the rest of the day just reading the world history textbook.  I tried to sit through a technology meeting, but it was in Spanish and about an email that I don’t have, so I was told to just keeping reading.  At the end of the day, I did have my first experience printing and making copies at the school though.  I think that qualifies me as a teacher.  Katie had gone with some other teachers to print things off on a more professional scale, so I rode the bus home with McCall.  There was a stray dog that followed us from the school to the bus stop (minus the crossing the street).  The dog was cute, but I was a little reluctant to pet her.  There are a ton of stray dogs in Costa Rica, which is a travesty.  Anyway, McCall talked my ear off during the bus ride, so I take that as a sign that she is feeling better!  She even got her nametag today and they spelled her name “Micall,” like how they pronounce it here.  The mistake made her laugh.  I’ll have to find a way to get my nametag made tomorrow.  I’m a little jealous.  When we got back to the house, I read my last article review and wrote up the brief summary, which was cause for a happy dance.  Dinner consisted of rice, broccoli, and this manicotti-es food, only instead of the cheese inside, there was meat.  It was super delicious.  After dinner, Zoe and I watched an episode of “Numbers” on Netflix, because I like hokey crime shows like that.  Then it was time to get mentally prepared to be a teacher tomorrow.