SORRY!!!

I have blogged almost every day since I have been in Costa Rica, but last week the tables were turned. I know that my mother is probably wondering why on earth I have not updated it in almost a week! To put it plainly, last week was hellacious, work wise. The week in general was good, but I just had a LOT of work to do.

1. I had to complete a take-home exam for my Society & Environment class, which doesn't sound bad, and it wasn't. It was just incredibly time-consuming. I had to do a lot of research online and summarizing and all kinds of things, and it took up a lot of time.

2. On Tuesday, Claudia and I spent the entire day (8:45-4:45) at the hospital in a workshop for my internship. I had to do a lot of prep for that Monday night, and then a lot of follow-up work and research that I am STILL working on, and will be working on for a while, which is fine because I need the hours to count toward the internship!

3. On Thursday, I had to teach my Spanish literature class....in Spanish. The research was time-consuming, and then I had to prepare the lesson and questions, in addition to a thorough analysis of the text we had to read for the class. This took a lot of time and was a bit stressful, because I was nervous about having to talk for so long in good Spanish, since I was being graded on how well I spoke in addition to the content and accuracy of the information. This took up a LOT of time last week, because the project is 15% of my final grade, I believe, and I wanted to do well.

4. For Spanish class on Thursday, I had to read a chapter in the novel we are reading (in Spanish, claro) in addition to the other work for class that day.

5. Thursday I had class till 4:30, then dance class from 5-6, then my dance "exam" at 8:30. In between class and the exam I had to pack for the beach, get ready, and finish up some other random tasks so that I could go to the beach in paz.

Maybe this will help my mom understand why I didn't have a lot of time to Skype last week. I'm sorry, mom. :-( But hey, I get to see you on Thursday!!!!!!

Speaking of....

MY PARENTS ARE COMING TO VISIT ME THIS THURSDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are arriving in San Jose around 1 pm and will be driven to San Ramon where they will wait until I finish my classes for the day. I still have to work on our itinerary a bit so that they can see the best of Costa Rica!

Anyway, that sums up the busy-ness (or business) of last week, and I will be posting throughout the day with details of last week, in addition to details (and photos!) of my trip to the beach this past weekend!!!