Settling

We have now been in Costa Rica for 6 weeks.  I had a moment yesterday where I realized I was living in another country.  It was surreal.  In about 3 weeks we will find out where we will be living for our 2 years of service.  Because they have to place 2 people in the same site we have a better idea of where we could be living than the single volunteers.  It will most likely be one of two places since there are only 2 married couples in our group.

Yesterday, we had a TEFL project fair.  The project fair was wonderful because we got to meet actual TEFL volunteers and learn about some of the main projects they have headed up at their sites.  The TEFL objectives are to improve teachers' English and teaching methods and students' English but we are encouraged to embark on other projects outside of that as well.  Some of the projects I enjoyed learning about are community English classes, book clubs, and facilitating workshops for local teachers.  We also got to have cafecito and dinner with most of the volunteers in Costa Rica yesterday.  It was nice to get out of training site and meet others in similar situations to us.  I am now extremely excited to find out our site and get there.

I will leave you with this little fact from Costa Rica:  They call James Hardin (from OKC Thunder) Mr. T.  That made me smile.

Challenge:  What is something that has made you smile or excited for something else this week?