This past week was great and I have really settled in here and feel like a TICA! However, things are starting to come to an end, which is crazy to think. All of us girls have done great hanging out with each other. We are really interacting with the teachers and they love to do things with us outside of school. Nicoya is a small town so it is very easy to run into other teachers and students. All of us girls walk into town every afternoon to run errands or to simply sit at the park and chat about how the day went. Here we see our friends and people approach us to talk so they can improve their English!! This is fun because we never know what kind of character we will meet that day.
Classes are going well and I love the ages that I am teaching. They are really eager to learn and they try hard. The most challenging part of English for my students is the pronunciation of the words. I feel it's because the teacher themselves have an accent so they are doing the best that they can do. What is funny is that I tell the class something and I get nothing back from the students and then the teacher says the same thing and they understand! It's just because of they way they pronounce the words.
The other difficult task is discipline. They handle discipline differently here--different from the way it has been practiced in North Carolina. The teachers that I am working directly with want to change it to be more like our system. The school is great! Everyone seems to enjoy our company and we love them.
Coming to Costa Rica is the BEST decision I have made!
