Another week in Costa Rica...Ahhhhhhhh....... :) What a beautiful place to wake up to every morning! Especially when you're getting spoiled like we did this past weekend! Oky, our host mom, is a member of the Costa Rica Country Club here is Escazu, and MAN is it nice!!! I have never gone to a pool/place this nice, not even on vacation! There were even moms there wearing visors with white long sleeve shirts and white long pants and high heels that had their MAIDS there taking care of the kids while they sat under the umbrellas!!! So when i say it's high-falutin', it is. At least to me! There were 4 pools - a shallow pool for the babies, a waist deep pool for young children, a two level pool with a waterfall in between, and a 4 lane lap pool! I went up to order something to drink from the counter (which was probably a 4 star restaurant) and the waitress was so confused why I had come up there - the come take your order and serve you in your pool chair! I am SO not used to that! We laid around and soaked up as much sun as we wanted while we listened to the creek flowing behind us and the wind blowing through the banana palms. That was the life! 
Then, after the pool, we showered and decided to go to the MultiPlaza for dinner and exploring. We decided to eat at INKA, which was Peruvian food! It was SO fancy looking, and the food was AWESOME, but it was actually in our price range (CHEAP!). I had a dish that resembled fajitas, but instead of chicken or steak, the meat was shrimp and calamari. After dinner, we strolled the MultiPlaza, which is a huge three story mall. There, I bought a new bathing suit to replace one of my loves that got stolen, and we finished off the night with Italian ice cream.We were definitely living it up, multicultural style! Haha!
The second week of teaching has been good so far. I take over Morning Meeting this Thursday, and Spelling, Handwriting and Read Aloud next week on top of that! We also had to make a few changes to our schedule, so I will be teaching all by myself for the whole month of March! Exciting but nerve-racking. Today, I also committed to coaching the elementary volleyball team every Tuesday after school. It will be grades 1-5, and I'm guessing it will be coed since the school has both a men's and women's varsity team! Thankfully, being a counselor at Westminster Sports Camp has prepared me very well for this. Now that I'm all excited about teaching and coaching, I'm gonna have to find time to get motivated about doing my own school work on the side. BLEH.
Speaking of not being motivated to do boring classwork for my own school...Looks like we're taking a weekend trip to raft the Rio Pacuare and explore a Caribbean beach! The plan is to go white water rafting on Saturday, spend Saturday night on the coast in Cahuita, Limon Province, and then spend Sunday on the white, sandy beaches of the Caribbean before coming home Sunday night. Should be a fun weekend! More details about that later though, time for me to go to bed! Those kids wear you out! :)
PURA VIDA,
Jessica
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