This week I again stayed in Bagaces to do some more eye tests on Sunday. This time it was in the school and we did exams for children. The program is working well now, but there were still a few kinks to work out. I had a different type of machine this time, one for children, so I had a whole new set of Spanish phrases to practice. Also we recorded the data for the children so I had to ask for their names. I have the worst time understanding people's names. All Spanish spelling is phonetic, so it should be an easy matter to translate the sounds into words, but I usually can't make out anything. And then when they spell it out, it ends up being something simple like 'Irene'. I enjoyed the day anyway and I now can use two extra days off in the future for a four day weekend.
On Saturday I went to a new public pool that opened up in Bagaces for a birthday party. The pool is popular among the locals and even has a large water slide. It also has a soccer field and a volleyball net and on Sunday after the eye exams I went back to play soccer in the afternoon. I didn't have a chance to get to the beach this weekend but I saw on the news that the entire Pacific coast, from California to Chile, was experiencing extremely strong waves from a freak storm in the Pacific. Considering how big the waves were last week, it's hard to imagine how big these waves were. They even had to evacuate some beach houses in Costa Rica due to flooding from the waves.
The world cup continued and Costa Rica lost their last game as well. It was the first World Cup that Costa Rica was in and did not win a game, so there was lots of talk about disappointment but there still lots of games to watch. It was also a sad day in the house when the 5 month old half Rottweiler half Doberman was hit by a car and killed. It happened last week during Costa Rica's first game and the other puppy lost her playmate. The family got another little puppy to keep it company. It was also the birthday of the youngest son last week and now they are all teenagers at 15,14 and 13 years olds.
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That bit about making out the names had me laughing. My coworkers wondered what was so funny, so I had to make up something about remembering a joke from last night. I either have to stop reading while at work, or you have to put a warning before you say something humourous!
I'm trying to get my site up soon (or at least by the end of summer) so you can see some of the stuff the gang's been up to while you're living la vida de la playa.
Sorry to hear about the puppy. :(
It's funny cause it's true. Next time I'll put a big warning sign up.
That's a real good idea having a site. I am curious to know what's going on back in Canada.
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