T-5 days until my departure for Costa Rica and I am scurrying around trying to get everything done!!! Haircut, paperwork, picking up supplies, cleaning out my room, to mention a few. I am also trying to get as much socializing in as possible between now and Thursday morning. Outlook for that is good. :)
I heard back from my classroom teacher finally!! I will be teaching 3rd grade at Country Day School (www.cds.edu.cr) in case you forgot. My teacher is from Wisconsin originally, but after she did her student teaching/internship in Costa Rica, she never came back. She married a local and has two little girls and sounds very happy! Her class is made up of 16 students - 4 girls and 12 boys!!! Not to mention that only 3 students are native English speakers, and another 3 are English language learners! That means that 3 students' first language is English, 3 are learning English, and 10 are bi- or tri-lingual!!! SO COOL! This will definitely be interesting.........especially since I think I want to go to grad school and teach English to speakers of other languages.......and since I'm hoping to pick up as much Spanish as possible while I'm there....YAY!!!
The classroom also has a Smartboard, which is like an iPad for a chalkboard for my non-education people out there. It also sounds like the class goes on a field trip and participates in hands-on activities and games. My teacher says that although there is a vast majority of boys in the class, the girls have enough attitude so that the boys don't completely rule the classroom! I am excited to see the dynamic of this class for sure!
I have to get back to getting my work done, and I will be packing all day Wednesday. Any suggestion on off-the-wall things not to forget? I also need to figure out how to get into Panama......
Pura Vida,
Jessica
Excuse the grammatical errors, I was too excited. :)
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