Testing our Relationship and Sanity…

Anyways, I’ll stop being so negative (well I’ll try) and explain. Ryan has been at the beach hostel most of the month. I think he has been home in San Jose for like 5 days out of last 4 ½ weeks. Since it is slow season his boss is having him do maintenance repairs on the hostel such as sanding and re-varnishing the beds, benches, tables, etc. Let me tell you, one thing I have learned from my short marriage is that Ryan hates painting and anything like it. So even though he has been at the beach it has not been a bowl of peaches. Plus the reason it is slow season is cause it is also “Rainy” season, hence it rains everyday pretty much. Ryan says the surf is crap and there is debris from the jungle (logs, leaves, sticks, trash) all over the beach, which were brought down from the rains into the ocean and pushed back up on shore from the waves. But all in all I think he can’t complain too much he is at the beach after all while I have been stuck in San Jose city.

However, on another note Ryan is still likes his job overall and is doing a great job. His hard work is paying off / paying our bills and living cost in Costa Rica. His job has been very important to keep us going and to be able to save the money I have been earning teaching; which of course goes into our South America travel funds.

So that brings me to ME. I have been working my butt off teaching the last month. WOW if I only knew how much work this would be. I spend most of my days doing lesson plans (for those of you who have no clue what I mean…I look at the book, decide what grammar or vocabulary I am going to teach, research what it means since most of the time I don’t know, then plan ways to teach it such as readings, fill in the blanks, board games, matching, speaking discussions, etc.). Then after hours of doing lesson plans, I have to correct papers and finally go to class to teach. While I am getting a lot faster at doing lesson plans everyone I have talked to says that the first year of teaching is the worse because you don’t know anything and have to learn all the grammar. Well that’s good news and something to look forward to.

In order to keep my sanity from living in the city alone and being a workaholic I am still going to aerobics class. It is my way to release stress and as most of you know my enjoyment (exercise).

BUT now the good news… this Saturday I have a week vacation break and am going to meet up with Ryan at the beach hostel cause of course he is there. Even though he still has to work this weekend and next week we will be together. And while it will probably be raining maybe we will go for walks on the beach in the rain or just enjoy laying around together in the cabana.

Then next Wednesday we will head back to San Jose and on Friday we are going to a Chocolate Farm to help harvest the coco and learn how to make organic chocolate. A few days of the real tropical and cultural Costa Rican experience.

Hopefully my next blog will be all good news and some good adventures.

written by  ryan & debbrial on June 23, 2010 from San Jose, Costa Rica
from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas
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