Day 5: Martes

Day 4 in Costa Rica...what will it hold? We did an early morning visit to Calle Viquez in San Joaquin de Flores. It is an elementary school grades 1 - 6. It was an interesting visit as the country of Costa Rica just had their election....the first woman president! She took office on May 8th. so the students are having an election of their own. there was mucho noise in the breezeways as the candidates were campaigning! It was interesting. We participated in an English lesson by modeling the english pronunciation of words. Mike and Tony were going to the mall to get a hamburger....etc. They struggled with the english words as much as I struggle with the spanish words. we then helped a class of 6th graders write letters to students back home. We had letters from home for them to respond to! it was a great experience. I wish there was more time in a classroom here, but they are on split schedules....little kids go in the morning and big kids go in the afternoon...then swap....so they only go to school 1/2 days so you can see why it's important not to interupt their instruction time.
We then had a cooking class and had to eat what we made. I have the recipe...it was actually pretty good! then off to spanish class for 4 hours...what a day.
Day 4 was a success! Tomorrow, we're off to the Volcano!