April 13-19 Update: Capture the Flag and some Curveballs

This was another solid, fairly normal week in my community. I spent most of the week in the classrooms, and despite a couple of curveballs, things went really well during the week. At the colegio, many students had exams, and at the escuela, some teachers were occupied with anti-drug trainings (Costa Rica’s version of DARE), and thus their classes were out. However, I was able to navigate these schedule changes to help out where I could. At the escuela, students played capture the flag. This was the first time many of them had ever played it (it’s not as popular of a game here compared to PE classes in the States. Every activity I’m facilitating in my PE classes this year is going to revolve around the larger theme of teamwork, and I think Capture the Flag was a great way to practice that. Students got the hang of it pretty easily and seemed to have a good time with it. On the other hand, lots of my counterparts at the colegio were pretty busy proctoring exams; however, I was able to slip into a few English classes throughout the week and helped co-teach some present-tense English verbs to 9th graders.


Over the weekend, I spent some quality time with my girlfriend Keily. On Saturday, we explored downtown San Jose by taking photos of things we saw that possessed a random color (she got yellow, I got red). Eventually, we made our way to a nearby suburban town west of San Jose called Santa Ana. There, we went to a pizzeria owned by an Italian-Costa Rican where we met one of my Peace Corps friends to celebrate his birthday. The next day, Keily and I worked out together and enjoyed a more relaxing day in her town.






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