April Report

As hard as it to believe, I am now into the home stretch of April.

I have been so involved in one thing or another that I haven't really noticed what a good month this has been.

Among this month's highlights:

1. a very enjoyable visa run to Nicaragua (no this wasn't to pay a VISA bill...it was to leave Costa Rica for 3 days in order to renew my visitor's visa, which happened automatically when I returned to CR)
2. the launch of a new website that I am developing with a fellow canuck
3. continued growth of my own website: Alexa (the website that ranks other websites) reports that traffic to my site has grown 150% over the past three months)
4. good progress in my students' English skills...both have marks in the low 90s
5. yesterday I met another English teacher, a Tico who is home for a few weeks before returning to Switzerland, where he is working on his masters degree in environmental studies while teaching English and Spanish and also learning German. What an absolutely amazing guy!!!
6. more canceled classes for this week so I am off to Quepos/Manuel Antonio on Thursday for a few days
7. this morning, my landlady brought me breakfast of an omelet of some kind, cheese, tortillas and of course, gallo pinto.

As enjoyable as these events were, it is difficult to offer any meaningful insights or observations...or even see any kind of a pattern.

But that's OK: I'm not even going to try. I am just going to enjoy the satisfaction of having events unfold as positively as they are.

Oh yeah...one more thing. Seems the green...or rainy...is now underway.

The downpours that I have experienced so far are nothing short of torrential. And the thunderstorms are absolutely awesome in the true sense of the word. They seem to come out of nowhere and wham, bam!!

I suspect that the elevation may have something do with the intensity of the rain and thunder storms. I checked this morning and San Jose is almost 1200 metres above sea level. Toronto on the other hand ranges from about 75 metres at the waterfront to 200 metres at York U.

But right now...12:23 pm...it's not raining. So I am going out for lunch. It might even stay dry until I get back.

Saludos.