The one with a normal day..

I figured that I should give you a brief about a day in Costa Rica. I am going to do the best I can to describe it!

5:45a.m-my eyes open and realize I have 15 minutes left.
6:00 a.m- Its a Brand New Day!!!!!

6-6:45 - Get ready-throw on my cotton skirts and shirt, eat either a)cereal that needs splenda b) waffles with ants and get in the car to go.
*Pick up Esterlena that lives 5 minutes away, she is a head maid at Blue Valley that speaks to us in Spanish and we laugh and smile cause not one of us understands.
On our way to Blue Valley, the sun is already up and its bright outside. We see people walking to work and places opening up for the day.

7:15- arrive at Blue Valley School.
7:20- Check email in the teachers' longue and say Buenos Dias at least 10 times to other employees.
7:45- Sit around talking to ticas or each other or read.

8:00- School starts, teachers walk into their classrooms at this point, not a minute before.
8:30- Assembly. Salut noble bandera, blanco azul y rojo..hamas neengoon son rojo fumancha est splendor (Tricia's phonetic version of Spanish) Salut to the Costa Rican Flag.
Class and Breaks throughout the day. We do not stay in the room while Spanish class is in there, we do not go to specials: art, PE, music, library.. We really leave the class alot. Have a 15 minute but turns into 25 min snack break at 9:45.
-Seek out our tica friends: Milagro Castro, Daniella, Kathrine, and stay away from the administration that scares us.

*Lunch at 11:30 where us gringos choose to sit at a smaller separate table where we speak English instead of trying to follow along with 15 different Spanish conversations at the other table. They all speak at once and somehow all hear each other.
-Look out the windows and see every single boy on a ripstick riding everywhere possible.
-My boy students constantly jumping on me and getting me to say spanish words cause they think its funny how I talk. The girls just love to hug. My teacher and I laugh alot.
-School is out at 3:00! We have to wait till Momma Elza gets off at 4:30, she is the school receptionist
-Therefore, Vanessa and I run! We run over 2 miles everyday with this running program we got going on.. its hard alot of the time but we push each other and do it!
-We used to do lesson plans too after our run, but not anymore!
*Leave at 4:30 with Momma and possibly on Mondays or Tuesdays go to Price Smart (like a Sams) or Hiper Mas (owned by Wal-Mart) or the Supermarket for groceries.
-Get home around 5:00 ish.
*Hang out with the girls, maybe go for a walk in the mountains.
-Lesson plan time too
-Watch Food Network, Lost, or anything else that is in English
-Skype!
-P90X
Eat around 6:30 Rice, Beans, Maybe some kind of chicken.
-Wash dishes and laugh
-Shower and go to bed soon after!
That was the life and day of Tricia Alaback.

Pura Vida.