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| First, Second and Third Place Winners in the English Festival Spelling Bee Colegio Liceo de Atenas, Costa Rica The light green uniform shirt means he is a graduating senior. All others blue! |
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| First Place Winner Receiving a Gift from Teacher Colegio Liceo de Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| “Native Speakers” as Judges for the Spelling Bee The teen is a student there, but from the states and a native speaker helping. The rest of us are old retirees from both the states and Canada. Colegio Liceo de Atenas, Costa Rica |
We started at 8 with a 9 or 9:30 break with a full Tico breakfast (Gallo Pinto, eggs, plantains, bread
and coffee! Then at noon a full Tico lunch and a donut as we left about 2 PM. The teachers are so nice and appreciative, the kids so nice and polite and helpful. It is a joy to visit this public school! And I will again tomorrow as a judge for the English Festival speaking contest and conversational English activities. Fun! One of the English teachers is Zaray Monge, a friend at church where she is also a translator and she was for awhile one of my Spanish teachers. So even more special to help her! She has three kids of her own plus a foster-child and her husband is a teacher at the other high school, Tecnico. A busy family!
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| My Gift from School A Beautiful Pot Plant! Colegio Liceo de Atenas, Costa Rica |
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They have updated the website for El Camino de Costa Rica and are having weekend hikes almost every weekend, though mostly in the steep mountains right now. Check it out! This will eventually be a top tourist attraction for nature lovers & hikers!