Frustrations

Well, not much of interest to report. I've been really rather busy lately subbing. I had my first bad experience, subbing 5 days for a speech teacher, the kids were completely unbearable by the last day. I had never written any detentions before, and now I've personally written 2, and many more were written by the attendance office and the teacher, once she returned. In two different classes, people just skipped out, just walking away from class, assuming I was powerless or too stupid to notice, so I took role again and turned the skippers in. Saturday school for you, jerks! I told the teacher that this was the first time I have honestly hated being a sub. Usually the kids are worse behaved than for their regular teacher, but not flat-out rude and disrespectful and impossible to control like these classes. But then Fri I subbed for one of the Spanish teachers, and it went very well.

It was nice to get a little chance to work on my Spanish (and actually, I got to practice a bit of German too, oddly enough), especially since we are leaving for Central America in just about 3 weeks! We need to make sure we have all the gear we need, and that everything else is in order. The most confusing part is actually the part that should be the easiest- we are planning to stay at a friend's family's cabin, but are unable to get a hold of the neighbors who can let us in. But I'm going to endeavor to not worry about it. Pura Vida, right? We'll just live and experience things as they come! I do hope we get to see a sloth, and some of the different monkeys! We recently bought a new camera, so I'm sure we'll have good photos to show off when we return.

Now I just need the yarn I ordered to get here so I can finish the Christmas presents for my friends in Seattle before we go up there! (Hogwarts scarves.) Oh, and we've got tons of work to do on the garage and in the garden before we leave too!

A couple of our college friends recently took a trip to Costa Rica, and I've been browsing though their pictures, getting excited for our trip in about a month and a half. I'm also trying to finalize the details of where we'll go and how we will get from place to place, and one small piece is proving to be a bit complicated. There are only 2 buses a day, both very bad timing in order to meet the boat taxi to our next destination. Also, I can't decide if we should spend 3 days on the coast, or take one of those days and replace the day on the Osa Peninsula we lost (due to stupidity on my part- April does NOT have 31 days). I really wish we had more time overall.

Maybe sometime we will take one of those easygoing, play-it-by-ear type of trips where you stay at a place until you feel like leaving, and make arrangements as you go. On the other hand, that kind of travel might drive me crazy, I'm not a highly organized person, but I am an anal trip researcher. It does become limiting, however, when you HAVE to be in certain places at certain times. Being totally flexible might be nice.