Thursday, March 12, 2009

Lots of work and bored right now.

I've just spent about 10 hours in the past two days writing tests for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade science, language, and spelling tests and I'm beat. I still have one more test to write, (6th grade language) but then I'm done. I'll do it tomorrow before it's due. You know, I'll work on it between breaks, at lunch and during my open period, and have it turned in by the end of the day. Even the teacher can wait to the last minute sometimes. I've only known about this for 2 days though because when the due date was established, (at the beginning of the semester) it was all in spanish. I guess I didn't catch that one since all I understood was "Hola" and "Quiero Ceversa" and that was about it. It's interesting to think that I've been here for two months now and it just keeps on going and my spanish gets better every day. I had a full on conversation with the maid today without even really thinking about it. However, I'm still in the learning process because I had a conversation with the school guard today and I didn't understand shit. It's all about vocabulary and I did not know what he was talking about. 

Anyways, yesterday we had 3 earthquakes, one 6.4, one 5.4+/- and one 5.2+/-. They were off the Nicoya peninsula and there was a little damage but not like the earthquake in January. My students felt it and freaked out and I just stood there, writing the spelling words on the board, not knowing what they were talking about. A lot of people felt all three and I didn't feel one of them. Until today. While I was writing the tests my whole table shook pretty good and water splashed out of my glass but that was about it. Nothing crazy, I've felt bigger earthquakes but the thing is is that if a earthquake happens here in Costa Rica, because the country is so small, you can feel it anywhere. Who knows where that earthquake was; I haven't heard of any bad news so it couldn't have been that bad. Apparently earthquakes happen all the time here, I'm just not feeling them. That's fine. 

That's it for tonight. Just thought I would write a thought or two and leave you with that. Have fun everyone and the best.

2 comments:

  1. It won't let me leave you comments. This is a test.

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  2. It worked. I love reading this stuff dude. Keep it coming.

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