Last Wednesday, to continue the celebration of Special Education Week, we all dressed up at vaqueros. There was a great celebration with a dance performance by some students in my department, a line dancing competition for the Deaf department, and a horse that came to give rides to the kids.

 With Alexandra and Susan!

 On Wednesday evening, a few of the girls and I went to a neaby stadium to watch the the biggest national soccer rivalry...La Liga vs. Saprissa. We dressed in purple to support Saprissa, San Jose's team!

On Friday during the day, I participated in a team building day with members of another department. We went to a little meeting space about an hour away and did all sorts of team building games...charades, races, tree climbing, etc. It was a lot of fun, and a great chance to meet new people who I see every day but don't interact with.

 On Friday night, we danced in the weekend at home :)

 

Saturday:

 On Saturday, Margie and Molly gave a tour of our freezer, where the number of bananas is rapidly declining (which means we've made LOTS of banana pancakes...yum!) You'll also find tastycakes (thanks, Cara!!), coffee, and chicken in there.

On Sunday, Amanda and I joined our co-minister Katherine at a 'theater in the streets' performance in San Jose. It was SO cool. A group of young women performed a pretty abstract but beautiful piece of art that involved moving in and out of streets, plazas, and intersections in San Jose. We followed along by running after the people holding flags to indicate where the actors went. It was so neat, and according to Katherine, something really unusual and untraditonal for Costa Rica.

Sunday:

Today, we oficially rang in Christmas at school with (the first) Christmas tree decorating ceremony. We sang traditional local Christmas carols and the kids put their homemade decorations on the tree. It looks great, even though it still feels early to be singing Feliz Navidad! The celebrations continue for the next 3 weeks!