Students running to look at a gecko nest in front of the lunch room at Escuela Linda Vista.I was just sitting here admiring my life as depicted by my blog and I realized that it looked really, really fun. Not that it's not really, really fun, but it looks like all I do is hang out at the swimming hole and go on exciting touristic adventures and visit the hospital. While these things happen from time to time, most days I go to work ( see fotos from Feb 6).
I haven't told you what I do all day yet, so I wrote up a generalized weekly schedule.
Please keep in mind that all of this is occuring in the context of Costa Rica which means none of the activities actually take place on time, there are always disruptions (ex: the cows that broke free and wander into classrooms) and sometimes activities don't happen at all (ex: I showed up at a school only to learn that the countries' schools closed for the week because the government's computer which houses the entirety of the teachers teaching assignments was stolen, and so they closed schools until they could call every school and get all the teachers names).
That being said, here's what my schedule is supposed to look like:
Mon & Tues :
I run a before and after school Eco clubs here at the community center for the elementary school down the block and we do agriculture/ environmental education lessons in the green house (vivero). The before school kids suck, but the after school kids are awesome!
Wednesday:
I bike 20 min to another elementary school (Linda Vista) to teach agriculture/ enviro ed to the 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. There are 6 of them. all girls. They are awesome!!!! We are going to do the sweetest projects and field trips!!!
Thursday:
I bike 35 min to a third elementary school (Kay Rica) and teach ag/ enviro ed from 7:30- 2. a 40 minute period with each grade from 1-6. Thursdays are very long days!
Friday:
I'm supposed to be working on a community education project on Fridays, but mostly I'm waiting for people and things that I need to go forward. So, for now I usually complete a couple of projects in the green house and garden, and prepare them for the before school kids on Monday, then rotate the compost, and do odds and ends stuff till mid-afternoon, then I usually go to the river to swim or out to play!
Saturday and Sunday I spend sitting alone in my room missing you guys (°college roommates and mr blums, please take note--not on the couch drinking a beer with the red lights on°). When I can pull myself out of my "missing you" stupor, I go biking or swimming and on occasional Sunday afternoons, if I'm really lucky I find an activity like the community bingo game at the local high school. WOO-HOO!!!
It's a party down here!
Miss you.
