Kids World Montessori

Yesterday was my first full day at my first placement, Kids World Montessori. I absolutely love my teacher and my class and the school! Yesterday was so much fun because I actually got to see how a full day works, well kind of. It is La Día de los Madres this Sunday here in Costa Rica, so the children prepared a little skit to many Grease songs to perform today for their mothers. So yesterday was mainly a normal day besides a little bit of rehearsal for the kids. It was SO adorable. Here is my class performing their part of Grease.

(Side note, it is taking FOREVER for the video to upload, will try again later!!)

Yesterday after school Meghan, Kelly (the other student here in Costa Rica from Winona State, not in our house though), and I went to the Hiper Más (Wal Mart) to get celulares prepago (basically trac phones) because we all want to be able to contact each other while we are here since we are in other schools. It was so weird! It seriously looked exactly like our Wal Mart with the set up and everything. It was quite an ordeal to get our phones though. They needed our passports, copies of our passports, and once we got the phones we had to go over to some counter and they had to write it down in a book and who knows what else! We also needed a person of reference for them to put into the computer, it was very weird. After that we were starving so we asked where a good restaurant was and they told us. We decided to go over there and as it turns out, we had to go across the highway!! It was rather creepy since I don't like heights too much and we were literally right above the highway. I have no idea what the name of the place was, but it was delicious! Some chicken and tortillas (and their tortillas are much thicker and more like bread than ours are) salsa and pico de gallo and rice and beans and some other type of sauce like a pico de gallo but with corn! It was delicious! After that, we came back to our house and picked up Lindsey (the other girl living in our house) and went back to the TerraMall. It's very close to our house and is just nice to get out of the house for a bit and just relax.
For dinner last night we had something that was like a steak! haha Definitely does not compare to anything in the United States, but it was nice to have some sort of red meat. We also had Yuka (spelling?) which is a type of vegetable that is really popular here and was really good! I have been basically going to bed right after dinner these days because we need to wake up at 5:30 every morning and I am definitely not used to that yet!

My day at school today was MUCH different than yesterday, actually made me extremely homesick. The button that I pushed on the bus for it to stop apparently didn't work, so it ended up going past my stop by like 4 blocks (and my stop is still 4 blocks from my school AND up a HUUUGEE hill, ugh.) And when I got to school all of the teachers were stressed with the decorating and preparing for the Mother's Day Party today. I think I would have even felt uncomfortable in an American school because I am new and I just had no idea what to do to help. Then really only a couple of the mothers even came and talked to me so I just felt like I was standing around all day. After the party, all of the teachers sat down and ate some sandwiches and it was definitely just a "personal time" for them so they were all talking in Spanish very fast and telling a lot of jokes. So as they were all sitting there talking and laughing, I sat staring into space and trying to listen a little bit. It is extremely mentally exhausting, which is probably another reason I go to bed at like 9:30 every night. =) However, seeing as I enjoyed school SO much yesterday, I know it will be better next week when everyone is back in the regular groove of the day.

Here is my classroom decorated for my arrival!

The food here so far is excellent, and we have a very cute puppy named "Natsu" (it means spring in Japanese!) I took a couple pictures for everyone to see!

This is a very typical breakfast here, consisting of many different fresh fruits and a "torte de yuka" that vegetable we also had with dinner but as a pancake! It tasted pretty much like a potato pancake. Also, all of the juice here is insanely good! So we always have a glass of juice and coffee with our breakfast!














Here is the meat from last night!






And here is Natsu!













Tonight we are going to listen to some music right here in Tres Ríos! I believe we are eating some sort of fish for dinner? And then we are heading to the music and then it will be time for bed I'm sure! Miss you all! =)