Do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

Folks,

This week were were visited by a camera crew from the discovery channel.

The pic of the week shows the presenter (in the pink top), having a cooking lesson in the school with one of the Spanish teachers, Silvia.

Discovery Channel
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The discovery channel are making a programme called Passport to ... Costa Rica, and filmed in the school. The idea is that the presenter comes to Costa Rica, decides to learn Spanish in Intercultura. She does Spanish classes, dancing classes and cooking classes. They filmed in the evening, so the Spanish classes were over, and some teachers and admin staff had to pretend to be entry level students.

In the middle of the mayhem, another camera crew arrived, from the Costa Rican station news, to film them filming. I was doing placement exams with students, and it was crazy negotiating around the two sets of crews filming, together with pretend dance classes and pretend cooking classes.

Afterwards, the story continues as she goes off with her friends to try out her new salsa dancing skills in a club in San José. To which we were all brought in two buses, and had a free bar until filming stopped. After the crew left, we stayed, and I eventually got home sometime after 4. Sometimes it's great to have a job that starts at 4pm.

All my students the next day had seen it on the news the previous evening, it was shown quite prominently.

Boy killed by crocodile
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This happened a couple of weeks ago, but I don't think I wrote about it at the time. A 13-year old boy was playing in a lagoon with his brother in Tortuguero (near where I saw the turtles), when a crocodile jumped out of the water, bit his leg. Then it struck a second time and dragged him off. The boy surfaced once, shouted goodbye to his brother, and wasn't seen again.

Moving to the coast
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I've decided to do some more research on what's available on the coast for the price I was quoted. I just have a feeling there are better options. However, I do at least have something to fall back on, and I think I can probably negotiate on price.

Irish General Election
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Thursday was the first General Election that I didn't vote in since it got the vote. I have to say full marks to RTÉ though. They broadcast their entire election programme on the internet, along with two 'raw' feeds, where I could see Mark Little rehearsing and returning officers nervously waiting for the signal that they were 'live'.

It was great, for a political junkie like me, to be able to follow the whole thing unfold throughout the day over a few beers. And full marks to Bertie for having it on a Thursday, so the results were shown on my day off!
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Well, that's it for this week. I can't believe that next week it's June, and my last month in the Apartment.

Chao,

Éamon

Today's Headline in La Nación: The ex-director of Migration authorised the return of a Nazi