Into the third bimester

Well..it looks like it´s been a month since I was last on here. I´m starting to settle into my groove down here. The month of October is the rainiest month here, so I´ve been seeing way too much rain for my liking. I just finished up another two month period with my students and will be starting my third bimester here on Wednesday. I went to the beach again last weekend and had a blast. I hung out with some Ticos and much to my dismay, after four months here I couldn´t understand a single word they said. So much for 10 years of studying Spanish.. Although most of it was slang, which is why I didn´t understand anything. Anyway, I still had a good time. I stayed in Puerto Viejo at a place called Kaya´s Place. Very nice place owned by some Americans from Vermont. They have an eight-month old pet monkey that is adorable!!! It´s so humanlike it´s scary. He would climb on your shoulders and hold your hand and sit in your lap and wait to be petted. It looked a lot like the monkey on one of the Indiana Jones movies. I don´t know what I contracted, but after my weekend in the sun I got some kind of virus that was floating around. I´ve had a horrible sore throat for about a week. Yuck!
As for school stuff, I failed three students this bimester. Not a pleasant feeling, especially as one of them was an older student that was really a sweetie. I´m starting this bimester with all new students. Actually, my manager wants me to take on a company class with some employees that work for a worldwide nurse recruitment service. I think they chose me primarily because of my accent, since this company is working directly with San Diego. Sometimes it´s good to be American! Anyway, it sounds like an interesting project because I´ll be doing a lot of pronunciation work which is an area that I think is interesting and challenging at the same time. It´ll be good to have a company class though because I´ll get a little extra cash and my taxis will be paid for, which is very important. Hopefully, the classes will make! I´m crossing my fingers on this one. Anyway, nothing else new on the boyfront. I haven´t met any boys other than that one waiter I think is cute. I think he may have a girlfriend, so I´m not going to pursue him. Plus how much pursuing can I do, when I´m severely limited with my Spanish flirting skills. Other than that, life is good and I can honestly say that I enjoy my job about 80% of the time. That´s pretty impressive considering my track record in the past.