Life as a new teacher

Well, I´ve taught my first week of classes, and am still alive and well. My first class was to a group of intermediate level students. Two of the students thought they were far too advanced for the class, and complained immediately at the break. What a first day! I also thought I was going to run out of stuff to do, and had to run around during break looking for an activity. What a scare! I like it so far though, and am plugging right along. My Spanish is improving slowly, but starts to break down when I try to talk faster. I guess my mouth muscles haven´t had time to adjust themselves. I´m also at the stage where half my thoughts are in English and half are in Spanish. Sigh... I´m really inspired to improve though because I met a Costa Rican native two night ago that had absolutely perfect English, British accent and all! He learned it all at the British Institute here. In fact, I thought he was from the UK!













I went to a feria today, which is an open air market that sells all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables. They had lychees, papaya, pineapple, oranges, lemons, plantains, and all kinds of other fruit that I don´t know the English word for. Fantastic stuff! It was really hot though. Anyway, I´m sitting at home trying to think of stuff for next week before I go out tonight. More to come later!