¡Escuela!

I loved my first real day of school. Guess that´s why I like being a teacher, but deep down I still like being a teacher so I can go on adventures like this. So the day started with my teacher calling in sick so the director of the school had to teach me. My first hour I was with John. We worked on greetings, pronouns, and the verb to be. In Spanish there are two of them which confuses me a bit. After that hour I was one on one with Danielas. The next thing she had me do is listen to a song. I was to underline when I didn´t understand. I knew more than I thought. It was a song about an American man falling in love with a Cuban. Since they come from such different countries they ended up settling in France. Next on the schedule was snack. I shared with Hoang Linh who arrived with John. John does class from 8-9 and Hao from 9-10. They switch off watching Hoang Linh. Ha Lien does pre-K from 7:30-11:30. So during my pastry snack John said he went to check on Ha Lien and they were going on a field trip. Of course, this freaked Hao out because he had no idea where. I haven´t heard from them yet so I´m not sure where she went but I´ll find out soon. After snack I learned words about the days, months, years, and seasons. I did very well on that activity. Third grade Spanish helps a little.
The last part of my day was an outing. The last hour is always an outing. We went to a fruit market and I had to ask Que es? What is it and write it down. Danielas also bought me two fruits to eat. They were mamonchino (spikey fruit with a white/clear middle and pit) and granadilla which was like an orange but more sour. Both were good. Then we went to the mercado. There I had to ask different shop owners what things were. I went to an everything/toy shop. There I learned sombrilla, muneca, sandalias, jarra, and reloj. Next stop was for helado flavors. They don´t let you sample flavors here :( The fish market was next. There was a lot of tiburon (shark) for sale along with huge camarones and disgusting cabezade pescado.
On the way to our final destination I had two more questions to ask. This next one will need to be passed on to cousin Dan. I asked what this bundle of sticks was and it was mazote. This is a natural remedy for colitis. You drink the special water that comes out of it to help your colon. My final questions was how do you say beet? My host family served it to me and I don´t like them. Beet is remonlacha.
Danielas was excited for me to drink a special Costa Rican drink called chinchivi. It is kind of like beer foam. It was flavored with strawberry and just a lot of foam. Apparently it is fermented corn with sugar cane. It was very sweet but tasty. It can make you drunk, but you have to drink a lot!
Back at school we reviewed.
I have to practice at the beach.
My current two favorite phrases are: Estoy aprendiendo! and Despacio por favor!
Now time to pack for Playa Samara.