COSTA RICA: End of homestay/teaching before travel

  Quepos, Costa Rica
Sunday, April 2, 2006

Buenas. Hey all.

Today is a sad day.......

Our course finished on Thursday and we all graduated with flying colours on Friday (am now TEFL teacher qualified woohoo), and people are already leaving to go back home to the States or elsewhere. Last 2 weeks of teaching was scary but cool. Really enjoyed it and built good relationship with my students who are just adorable.

Due to the intensity of the course, nothing much funky has happened outside working hours.
We had a nice meal with the trainers on Friday and then yesterday was a house party then hardcore clubbing. Surf is crazy at the beach these days so trying luck at that....oh, we had a cultural presentation which involved food sampling and music listening... v nice gesture of locals.

My, has the rainy season started early!..... normally during low season (may - november), rain is torrential with thunder storms galore lasting 72 hours solid.... Temperature has dropped slightly now and rain is beating down heavily.... Glad that we have just missed this really.
With this come frequent and lengthy power cuts whic h affect the whole region..... madness.... u can just imagine the smell form the sewage etc...... nasty.

Am staying with 2 course mates at the same hostal as did when arrived here.... tomorrow we will head to san jose, the capital of CR where I need to sort out my mammouth 3.5 day coach trip all the way up to north eastern mexico where I pick up my first tour. refuse to pay 8 x as much on plane.....should be interesting. In the meantime, I wanna discover CR better for a week or so and go to all the touristy places on both pacific and caribbean coast. As for Easter week, who knows.

this is all for now.

I hope ot be able to report back more often now have finished course..

hope all is well.
andy