Well other than my final week 5 journal entry, my college career is officially over. This was our last week at San Ambrosio because the schools in Costa Rica are letting out for their summer vacation. It was a crazy hectic week with testing, end of the year activities, and myself trying to finish what little I could with all of my classes. As a whole I feel extremely fortunate and blessed to have the opportunity and experience to teach at San Ambrosio, but like I have said before, it was a very frustrating time and experience. Even though I speak enough Spanish to communicate and hold a small conversation, I was left in the dark on several different occasions when it came down to the last couple days of school. I only saw half of my classes and school ended a day earlier than they had told us at the beginning of the week. There were only three students from my high school classes that completed their stencil piece due to lack of time. The 5th and 6th grade classes came nowhere close to finishing their alien heads and in fact I didn’t even have class with the 5th grade the last week. 3rd grade got to finish most of their pirate comics that they had been working on, whereas 4th grade did not because I did not meet with them as well on the last week of school. Finally 1st and 2nd grade for the most part were able to finish their paper cities but most of them were severely destroyed because there was no safe place to keep them from week to week. Again I am certainly not complaining but just being realistic in the grand scheme of things. As much as I am enjoyed San Ambrosio, I am ready to get out of Nicoya and be a college graduate.
Dani, Kayla, and I are catching a bus tomorrow morning at 4:45 to Nosara where we will be walking and/or hitch hiking to my favorite place in Costa Rica, Ostional. Hopefully we will get to see some turtles here considering Ostional is a world famous beach for turtle nesting. Once a month from spring till fall, thousands of turtles return to Ostional to lay their eggs in the secluded and tranquil town of Ostional. Here we will be staying with my good Tico friend Ludi and his family. From here I will be saying goodbye to Kayla and Dani as they return to Nicoya and continue their last week in Costa Rica site seeing. As for me I will be headed up the coast on Monday to Nicaragua to visit some good friends of mine from back home on the Outer Banks who are staying in the town of Las Salinas for a week. Hopefully I will score some surf and certainly get to explore the country of Nicaragua in the company of some good life long friends. One more week to go and I am a free man.