Today is No Homework Day!

A fun holiday for school kids only if you can convince your teachers!  🙂  I discovered in the Washington Post article about fun and silly holidays . . . March 6 – No Homework Day!

At this point in the school year, you may be tired of homework. Share this holiday with your teachers, and they may give you a one-day break to play soccer with friends or finish the book you started on Read Across America Day, March 2. (We also learned of a No Homework Day in May, but don’t count on getting two of these.)   🙂  I’ll try it on my Spanish teacher!  🙂

March 6 – No Homework Day!

¡Pura Vida!

Meet the Tayra

Tayra in Costa Rica

And to continue my usual emphasis on nature and wildlife, here’s a link to another Tico Times Wildlife Article “Meet the Tayra” which is Costa Rica’s version of a tropical weasel. The linked article has more of the Guanacaste Camera Trap Videos from which the above pix came.

¡Pura Vida!

Spanish Homework with an Oropéndola

Photograph on the Yorkin River, Costa Rica, by Charlie Doggett
La fotografía en el río Yorkin, Costa Rica, por Charlie Doggett

I will not copy it all here or translate it all to English, but you can see what I said on my Spanish Learning Blog, ¡Aprendo español en Atenas!


Some of the data was copied from Spanish language websites, but I do write simple sentences on my own now. I’m still a slow, slow learner! Yet it is fun! ¡Pero es divertido!


If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.

If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.

‒Nelson Mandela