Made it through my first day of class after a placement test at 7:15am (ouch!). 3 other people in my class this week- a 21 year old French speaking Canada who is spending 2 weeks here and 2 weeks volunteering on a turtle project, a family law attorney from Chicago who is unemployed right now (probably early 30s) and a German woman in her 50s who has been traveling since February and is going back in June. Turns out she's an avid diver and did 2 ten day liveaboards on this trip - one to the Cocos Islands and one off the coast of Panama - we were talking about going diving together maybe Sunday.
Entire school is probably 75% Swiss - probably because it's Swiss owned and they do some sort of certification. About 20 people split between morning and afternoon classes - mostly kids in their early 20s. In fact, the German woman, Gabriela, and I clicked probably from an age as well as interest perspective - she's a freelance German - French translater and her partner is a computer/IT guy who evidently works a lot and meets up with her for a couple of weeks on these long trips.
I'm in the perfect class for this week - we're all about the same level with differing levels of vocabulary.. Gabriela is hard to understand in Spanish sometimes because of her German accent though... Learning the past tense - which I had some exposure to living with my host family when I was in Cuernavaca, Mexico 3 years ago since I had to tell my family what I did in the afternoons when I got back. Teacher, Sylvia, seems pretty good - has taught at the school for 9 years and before was a criminologist in San Jose.
Too hot though to spend a lot of time in the sun without a dip in the pool or the ocean. I was just outside on the balcony at 6:30am and started a major sweating boat. Condo is perfect for Lisa and I - pretty quiet except some cat yowling in the wee hours this morning. Just cut up some mango and papaya, brewed a cup of coffee and catching up on email.
Today, Lisa and I are planning to sign up for the 3pm surf lesson class. We're talking about signing up for the afternoon/sunset catamaran cruise tomorrow starting at 1pm which includes kayaking, snorkeling, lunch on the boat and free drinks - but much smaller than those party cruises that we've seen with the drunk Springbreakers in Mexico.
Hasta luego!
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