Gearing up for the next adventures

Not much going on the last few days just been hanging out in San Jose, but I thought I would give a brief update. Besides reading a lot and walking around the city what we really have been doing is trying to “litter box train” Flip Flop. Since she is going to be a traveling cat and live in the van with us it only makes sense that she has a place to do her business in the van and not on Ryan’s lap while he is driving. It has been a bit of a challenge cause her liter box is in the van (of course) down stairs in the garage of the hostel. So we are constantly going up and down.

Sleepy head

Flip Flop

Beside all the poopoo and we have also been waiting for my interview to get accepted into the International House Costa Rica, Instituto Britanico (certification school) for teaching English to foreign speakers. I had the interview today and it went well. I got accepted into the school and will be starting in February. The school is in a good, clean part of San Jose; an area called Los Yoses. There are lots of schools and institutions in the area, lots of apartments for rent, a grocery store near by and a mall. Seems like a good place to stay.

Today we also found out that we have been accepted as volunteers for a group in Granada, Nicaragua called La Esperanza Granada. The organization focuses on helping improve the local children’s education by working as kindergarten assistants, tutoring the primary school kids, teaching English in the schools, mentoring the high school kids, doing community research, doing arts and crafts and sports with the children and even taking them to the local dentist. However, we will be going there during their winter vacation, December and January, so we will be doing more playing than teaching I think.

**Here is the website if you want to check it out: http://la-esperanza-granada.org/

We will be in Costa Rica for another week and half then going back up to Nicaragua. Oh and Ryan got a hold of the guy he is suppose to work for…so we are going up to this guys hotel tomorrow for Ryan to do some handyman work in the hotel for the next week. Kinda a test run for both of them. If all goes well when we get back from volunteering in Nicaragua Ryan will work for this guy while I go to school.

So I guess we have not been doing much lately but a lot has been happening.

written by

ryan & debbrial on November 17, 2009 from San Jose, Costa Rica

from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas

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