Day 45

Another breakfast with Marcos and Constanta of eggs, a cheese sandwich, and a huge plate of fruit (papaya, watermelon, and bananas - I was again the only person who ate fruit).  Class again was great with Vinicio and flew by.  I had lunch at the school (I'd brought a cup of noodles, an apple, and some chips).  Silly for me to have worried about too much English.  Breaks here are taken with the teachers and directors of the program and they only speak Spanish to us.  So even on my break, I'm not actually getting a break from learning the language.

In the end, I decided to stay with my afternoon teacher.  I figure that out here in the suburbs I don't have much to do in the afternoons anyway, much less to distract myself with, might as well dive in and try to make the most of my less than stellar teacher.  It ended up being a little better than the day before however he still appears to have his own agenda rather than "personalize" his teaching to my needs.  I know that he's trying to be aware of what I need; he had us simulate a therapy session, but instead of telling me about real life in Costa Rica he made up a pretend problem.  Then just as we started to get into some more meaningful conversation he decided he needed to abruptly change it up and have me work on grammar that isn't important for me.  Umm, the whole point of the afternoon session is conversation and practice useful to me....

This school's afternoon activities are lacking (only 2 activities scheduled for the entire week) especially when considering the price of the school and far out location where there isn't a lot to do.  I took part in the showing of a movie this afternoon.  Also, I was the only one there so it wasn't much of an opportunity to socialize.  However, I really enjoyed the movie.  It was called "El Regreso" and was about a Tico (Costa Rican) who had been working in New York as a writer for the past 10 years and returned to Costa Rica to see his dying father who he hated.  Also, it had English subtitles so I could actually follow along.

Back at home I found that the shower here gets really hot :-).  However, I had a difficult adjusting it to the right temperature.  I also found my clean clothes!!!! (They do laundry here as a part of the homestay and I hadn't done laundry since when I left Xela.)

They served me dinner early (not one, but two hamburgers) since they were heading out to church for the evening, I think, though I'm not totally sure.