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Published: October 27th 2008
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Tortuga Bay!
Once agian I love this place... most like one of the most stunning beaches I have seen on the island of Santa Cruz! Alright! Well I have been out of the states for two months and things are still going pretty good! The month of October has been filled with random fiestas and indo games at the school which are pretty crazy to watch because the people are really good at playing here!! Teaching is still the same I’m not sure but I really think the way people act here when somebody is up front is culturally based. So I’ve decided not to really fight it! I think this because the other day we had a meeting with the faculty and a physiologist from Australia was going over different ways to discipline positively and negatively to control a class better. While the man was giving his presentation the faculty were all talking and really weren’t paying a whole lot of attention. To me I would think of it as being rude when somebody up front is talking! But it seems that it is the cultural norm here which might seem a bad thing from my point of view but in the society here it really isn’t considered as a bad thing which is good in some ways but makes my life tougher in others,
Getting ready for Oct.
Fiesta of games during the first couple of weeks for the month october... this month was filled with cazy and random things. lol.
Through out the two months here I have been learning a lot though teaching and if I could start with a new class and had a couple weeks to prepare there are many different things that I would try differently. One thing that has been going well with my ninth grade is once a week I let them teach me Spanish. It’s pretty funny because they LOVE teaching me Spanish! They would teach me Spanish any day over me teaching them English! I guess what kind of makes this teaching thing hard is I’m teaching a subject that a lot of students don’t like. Sometimes I wish I could just go out and have fun with my students. I feel I can influence their lives in a better way by having fun with them. So the other day I invited some of my students to go snorkeling, and a few of my freshman boys invited me to go fishing with them which was pretty fun! So to really influence the lives of my students I feel that I need to take time out of school to hang out with them and do some fun activities! Which I really
Heading over to the beach!
Always a crazy ride in the back of truck... don’t mind doing and enjoy a lot. I mean lets face it English is boring, lol. I try to make it interesting in certain areas but there is only so much you can do 😊.
Besides teaching a couple week ago I went to a beach called Garrapatero. It was a really nice beach! It had some funky trees that provided some great shade to chill under. The beach in itself was pretty sandy but pretty deseaving too! I was walking out in the water to go swim and them BAM!! It was like all of a sudden there where a bazillion rocks… luckily I brought my tevas though! The snorkeling there wasn’t to great. The tide was low when I was there so it might be better at high tide. The water was just murky and full of sea cucumbers… I did find this dead lobster though… lol the thing was gigantic! At first It looked like a giant grasshopper since the water was so murky! So my first thought was what the heck is a huge grasshopper doing in the water… haha it was pretty crazy though! The beach was nice there and was perfect place to
play soccer on the beach.
Later that same week we didn’t have school on Friday so Drew and me went surfing over at Tortuga Bay! It was pretty exciting because it was my first time going. I basically sucked it up but that’s okay! The surf shop we rented boards from didn’t really have any decent boards. All they had were short boards witch normally don’t work to swell when it’s your first time out but ahh hey whatever. We where able to surf for about four hours until Drew and I both had some major chafing going on…. The two mile walk back was not a pleasant one…. Basically those fours hours of surfing I got a butt whooping!! Swimming out was a lot of work. Swim for ten seconds… get bumbled by a wave, and start the whole process of trying to swim out again. Man! It was pretty crazy. Finally at one point there was a nice long break in the waves coming in and I just thought alright! This is my chance to get out to some of the better waves… so Drew and I were able to get out a little further. Finally though
Here we are
A nice beach but not to good for snorkeling. a huge wave was starting to come in and I was just thinking ummmmm…. Well here it goes! I turned my board around and got ready for the wave to come in. As it kept coming it got bigger and bigger until well for my first time out surfing it was HUGE!!! It came up on to me and the slope of the wave was so steep my board just slipped straight out from underneath my stomach straight behind me…. From that point I was just thinking… ummm o dang I’m screwed… lol. The wave was breaking on me and my board was dragging along behind me. By some freak of nature though I stayed on top of the wave, I was doing some type of half crawl half butterfly on top of the white wash! My next thought though was that my board is just going to bash me in the head haha well luckily it didn’t. Luckily I stayed on top of the wave while Drew got pushed under and thrown around like he was in a washing machine! It was all good though cause we both came out of it laughing. Maybe a few months down the
The beach
Good for soccer rode I’ll give surfing another try. It’s pretty expensive to rent boards here so it’s not too economical to do it all the time!
Also that same weekend Drew, Gabe and I walked along the coast past the Darwin Center where the beach eventually turns into a cliff along the ocean! That was pretty cool lots of Marine Iguanas which really smell bad!! We did get to see a blue footed booby really close up. It was pretty cool cause he didn’t even care that we where so close to him. The walk along the cliffs was pretty interesting but was pretty rough on the ankles from all the rocks! There weren’t any real smooth flat places to walk and got tiring after a while. If I have enough time I would like to go even further down along the coast past the Darwin station. There are some pretty interesting things along that way!
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