20:45 A wall of tiredness again hit me this morning but the overall intensiveness of the Spanish course is great opposed to single day which doesn't feel so intense. This thought had crossed my mind as WE passed under the "monkey bridge" (a thick rope leading over the road).
School
was again funny, I forgot the word "ice-cream" in Spanish of all
things - which is so basic I felt pretty embarrassed though we all laughed it
off. Maestra asked me a question about my first trip alone and my feelings but
after saying it was this Costa Rican trip she changed it to a trip with friends
to make it harder, which meant my school trip to France… for which I had little
to say.
When
I was young I was very fussy with food, so that trip was boring for quite
complicated reasons, and therefore difficult to explain in Spanish so I had to
learn many more words. We also played language games on a Smart Board to review
our homework on animals.
On
our way back WE saw a tree that had fell across the road and knocked down power
lines, although the telecoms people (ICE) were already there with a guy holding
what can only be described as a chainsaw on a stick. In 5 or 10mins they had it cleared enough for
traffic to path, and I couldn't help feel this would have taken the whole
afternoon to sort out back home in the UK - damn health and safety!
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| Tree Falls Down, Cleared In No Time (D.Philpot) |
WE
sat at the small shop once much and split one of our host families lunches as
she always provides way too much food for one person, and then WE went over the
difference between American and English crisps and chips etc. WE spent a good
amount of time at the L's reviewing more CSU materials, then learned about how
to use two-way radios until we were interrupted by Chacalacas (fairly noisy
turkey-like birds), we then shared "mint curd" (instead of lemon
curd) - both of which are incredibly delicious freshly and naturally made. DL
taught us about mapping techniques, and I learnt after much confusion that
scientists used to draw computer quality figures/diagrams (e.g. graphs you
might produce in Excel) using stencils for the symbols.
In
the evening I chatted with p-man, played with my host families dog Perla, had a
bad apple-tasting banana (called a Quadrado, normally AMAZING!), and wrote this
quickly before making a start on my homework.