Sunday, April 6, 2014

Sunday was a shorter day because of the Costa Rican elections.  Glen, Neena, and I were in charge of seeing the kids finish the conference strongly and see students come up with resolutions to their conflicts, even if they did kick us out for secret balloting.  The closing ceremony saw several of our Pan-American students get honorable mentions for top-delegate of their committees and even one received the honor of being the top delegate.  Overall, it was a great experience to see what the Model United Nations was all about and see students passionately participate.  We got back to Pan-American at about 3:00 and I wanted a hamburger, so I finally got my Wendy’s fix.  Afterwards, I walked to the grocery store nearby and picked up some bread, jelly, and two bottles of wine.  Katie and McCall went to Manuel Antonio this weekend to celebrate their birthdays by going white-water rafting.  I tried to go incognito and leave their bottles of wine on their beds before they knew what hit them, but they beat me home by two minutes.  In the evening, I finished making test corrections and hung out with Zoe.  I also watched a little bit of the political coverage over the presidential elections here.  One of the presidential candidates stated that he did not want the gig anymore a month ago or so, so the election was a foregone conclusion.  People were still happy and it was still a big deal with people driving around, honking their horns late into the night.