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| First to Fourth Place Winners of Casual Conversation Liceo de Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Winner of the Formal Speech Contest Liceo de Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| One of the students delivering her speech before us judges. Liceo de Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Recognition of the Blind Student who participated in the speeches. Liceo de Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| Pulling Judge Charlie into the festival picture frame Liceo de Atenas, Costa Rica |
For the second day in a row this was a delightful experience with some of the nicest people I have met or worked with anywhere in the world! We had fun and though all could not win first place, all the kids were winners! And they do English better than I do Spanish! Being old is my excuse! 🙂
The teachers say they will expect me to help next year and Zaray is going to get me an invitation to judge in the regional contests.
One of the boys in his speech talked about the diversity of nature in Costa Rica and mentioned his Dad was a bird watcher. Afterwards I gave him my business card and he gave me his dad’s facebook address where he posts bird photos: https://www.facebook.com/arnoldo.garciaj
At the time I did not know that I had already discovered his Dad’s Facebook page and was already a “Follower.” He is one of the best nature photographers in Costa Rica. I must learn to speak Spanish to relate to guys like this! In a post on his page I referenced my Birds photo gallery, not as good as his but not bad! 🙂
https://www.facebook.com/liceodeatenas/
Photos of Liceo de Atenas on the web (Google Image Search)
And a cool locally made video about Atenas from local Chamber of Commerce type organization
My ATENAS photo galleries:
Atenas General Gallery
Vistas (Click Roca Verde, My House and La Jacaranda)
Walking in Atenas (flowers mostly)
Atenas is quite a wonderful place to live as you will see above. 🙂