First week in Monteverde

So I´ve been in Monteverde for about a week now and I am exhausted.  I am thoroughly enjoying my time here, but I´m beat.  Every morning we hike up the steep incline to school before 8, and on Wednesday we´ll have to start getting there by 730.  But luckily waking up isn´t an issue as sunrise seems to be some time around 6am, so we wake up then without alarms.  We´ve been staying at school until about 4pm everyday and then we walk home in the rain.  We come home make and eat dinner and I hang out with my roommates (Paulina teaches 1st grade and Amy teaches Environmental Ed) and then we work a little bit more and fall asleep.  

On our first night here we were visited by a sloth, so in my first week in Costa Rica I saw a sloth and some monkeys, the two animals I most wanted to see here in Costa Rica!  Wednesday morning we woke up bright and early and went to school.  We took a self-guided tour of the campus in pairs.  The campus is beautiful.  I constantly feel as though I am at summer camp here.  At the school´s kiosk I saw this beautiful butterfly.Wednesday afternoon we took a tour of the town, and yes it does make Cobleskill and Winooski look like major metropolises.  On Friday night many of our co-workers came here after dinner.  Saturday mornings from 6 - noon there is a farmers market that has the best produce in town, or at least that´s what I´m told.  We didn´t get out of the house in time so we went the the grocery store in the early afternoon and then went to Beverly´s (the 2nd grade teacher) house for dinner before seeing the community production of Oliver at an outdoor theatre.  

Sunday early afternoon our friends Tera (the kinder or pre-school teacher), Jesse (Tera´s partner), Logan (their monkey child) and Sarah (the 3rd grade teacher) came to visit and ask if we wanted to go hiking in the river, so Paulina and I threw on our outside clothes and went on a little adventure.  In the evening I got to go to dinner with some people who are here for a couple of weeks with their class from a college in NYC.  Today was rather uneventful, we just went to work at 8, came home at 4 and ate dinner and I´m about to fall asleep at 730pm.  School starts Wednesday and I´m feeling excited and overwhelmed.

                                        Paulina, Sarah, Tera, Logan and Jesse

Sorry there is not any Spanish or ASL in this post,  I´ve been so exhausted.  Espero que os vaya bien!