Nueva Vida dia 2nd

So today has been another good day with the host family, ezcept daniel made me watch Thriller all the way through today, which was torturous (the whole hour and a half long movie, not just the music video). I really didnt want to watch it, but I lack the langauage skills to politely decline the request of a 9 year old without hurting his feelings, so I sat there and soaked up the 80´s goodness. It was another hot morning here, but it has started to cloud up and the temperature is dropping off, so im thinking there will be more police terrifying thunderstorms tonight. Last night was my first real night teaching with Luke, and it really opened my eyes to how enjoyable (and realitively easy) it will be to carry out my duties here. We teach the same thing for two weeks in a row, becuase there are two differant groups of officers. Every week they change places and the people who were stationed in La Fortuna get to go home for a week, so by the second week we really know what works and what exercises are helpful to them. Now that I have been to atleast one real class with Luke his teaching style is starting to make more sense to me. We both agree that for this to be an effective program in the long run there should be some kind of larger curriculum that we stick to, but the problem is that OTEC doesnt want to pay for one. So were doing the best with what we have, which is the rusty grammar knowledge of two 20 something Americans. Heres a little test for you, what is the difference between the past tense and the past participle? yeah Luke and I have no idea, so that is my wikipedia quest for the day, and then once we get the difference figured out we have to come up with a way to effectively communicate it.So the job has its challenges, but it was such a thrill seeing the police putting there new vocab words into use last night and actually Getting the material.

Ive decided that Paragraphs might be helpful in making this thing a little easier to read, instead of the huge block of continuous text. My host mom cooks such delicous food, it was the usual gallo pinto for breakfast today, I dont know what happened to the Chocolate cereal, but I wasnt going to turn down a hot meal. and let me say that gallo pinto is not bad at all, when it is properly seasoned its quite enjoyable. LulU and I had a good moment of connection over it too ( I said su gallo pintp es mas mejor que el gallo pinto la policia cocinan, trying to say that hers is better then the polices (which is improper Spanish i should have said (su comida es mejor (no mas)) when she corrected me though i told her that the police food is so bad that mas mejor has to be correct, which she thought was absolutely hilarious). I dont know if that translates well on a blog but whatever, it was the highlight of my day so far.

The TV has been treating me well too, almost all of the US open is on down here, and when its not the only other sport is soccer, so I got to watch some world cup qualifiers today too. The next time its really hot Luke, Fresno, and I are going to go to the river, which Luke says is a ton of fun. He said there are rope swings and cliffs to jump off of and that the sewer doesnt connect to La Fortuna´s river so that its clean as well. Sorry i missed your chat box mom I was writing this :(, Im sure we will connect sometime soon. Well I am off to my room to watch more tennis and pray for some rain. Pura Vida