Head 'em up and move 'em out...

Hey friends.  It's Sunday night and I'll be leaving for Costa Rica tomorrow.  Leaving the house at 5:30am... out of Asheville at 7:45am.  One stop in Atlanta and then to San Jose.  I'll get there around 12pm tomorrow afternoon.  Feels awful soon to be so far away.

I got my work schedule for the first month of my stay.  It turns out I'll be working Monday and Tuesday mornings and afternoons with elementary and high school students - two separate sesssions each in a community called San Julain.  Wednesday I have off/prepare for the rest of the week.  Thursday individual tutoring sessions with two administrative workers at ILCO (Costa Rican Lutheran Church) and the other one with the BISHOP.  Yeah...  Friday evenings I'll be traveling to San Martin, about an hour and a half from San Jose, to lead English classes for a group of adults and then Saturdays working an English class for the youth in San Martin.

A lot of the students I'll be working with will be preparing for their national exams which includes an entire section on English.  They need to pass this section to graduate high school when they are seniors.  I'm hoping I can help those kids out in San Martin and San Julian.

I'll be staying in San Jose for three nights of the week, San Martin for two nights, and San Julian for two nights.  Should be quite a schedule for the first month.