A Room with a View

Hola Reader! I meant to write a post yesterday, but I got a little distracted by The Hunger Games. I started/finished the first book yesterday. Take comfort in knowing that you were neglected in the name of literary enjoyment. So, here's what you missed...

I had orientation at work on Thursday and Friday, which was pretty standard. I met my fellow teachers, got a tour of the school, played lots of get-to-know-you games and found out my schedule. I think I'm really going to like working for this school. All of the people seem great and the school is very student focused. There are also a lot of great resources at the school and they give you a lot of freedom to be creative, which I will definitely be taking advantage of.

Yesterday, I moved into my condo, so I'm no longer living in a hostel. Yay! I have two house mates, Anne and John, who are both great. They're older than me, which is nice because we all know I'm kind of old inside. Anne is currently writing her master's thesis, something about international human rights. John was an archaeology/anthropology professor at the University of Colorado and now he's traveling and teaching English.

I've included a picture of my room and the view outside of my window. You can kind of see the mountains in the background. I took a few pictures of the mountains as I was walking around today, but they just don't look as awesome as they do in person. I'll try and get some better pictures to show you, but you might just have to come visit in order to get the full effect.

I start teaching tomorrow and I'm still working on getting settled. As you know, there are a lot of little random things you have to do and buy whenever you move somewhere new. So I should be pretty busy this week. And by busy, I mean relative to what my life has been for the past month. I only have 15 hours of class a week so far, plus a few random administration hours, but the first week of class is always a little stressful for me. I never really know what to expect from students, so it makes lesson planning a lot harder, but I'm definitely more excited than stressed about getting started. I might jot down a few lesson ideas today, but my books are at school and the school is locked down because apparently everything in Costa Rica comes to a standstill on Sundays. Almost every shop/restaurant in town is closed. So I will most likely spend the rest of today finishing the next Hunger Games book (I'm already 100 pages in).

I'll leave you with a random bit of trivia: Bruce Wayne in Spanish versions of Batman is changed to Bruno Diaz. The things you learn by watching TV in Spanish...