Weirdness of the Week - Episode II

1.  The microwave at the school I work at is rigged so that it has three external buttons that work.  One sets the time for 2:50, one starts it cooking for 2:50, and the third button clears the time.  Apparently it had broken a few years ago and a Tico said they could fix it for the school.  This was the result. 

2.  Schools here don't have copy machines.  Each school copies everything at the local copy store.  I can't imagine doing that in the US. 

3.  We can cancel school to have a teacher's meeting.  I wish we could have done that in the US.

4.  A samba band practices in the bank parking lot outside of my house - when it's raining. 

5.  Advertisements in this country... and other Latin American countries that I've been to... are shared with the world starting at 7am.  The venue for these advertisements is a car driving through all the neighborhoods with a speaker attached to the top, blasting the announcement with bumpin music as the underscore.