Hola from Costa Rica!!!
I've been here about a week now and this is the first time I've really been able to use the internet. Life is pretty crazy busy, which is probably a good thing. Let's start off with the basics. I live with a family of three. Flor is the mom and she has two children. Marco is 17 and Daniela 11. We live in a pretty safe neighborhood about a 20 minute walk away from the LASP (Latin American Studies Program) office in El Carmen de Guadalupe. Life is very different here. We eat A LOT of white rice and black beans. They call it "gallopinto." It's yummy, but definitely clogs you up, if you know what I mean. On Saturday, we spent the day in downtown San Jose, just trying to get to know the city. And today we had our first day of classes. I took the bus with other students to the LASP office where we learned about Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism. Yeah, super fun. After almuerzo, we walked for an hour to ICADS, the school where we are taking our spanish classes. There we broke into groups based on our level of Spanish and just talked! We played a few grammar games and ate a snack! It was wonderful. Just like kindergarten again. I loved it! I really hope my Spanish will improve :)
I feel like I have just word vomited on the page because there are so many things running through my heard that I want to tell you. I just don't know how and in what order. But to sum this past week up -- Costa Rica is a beautiful lush country with kind indirect people and comida rica.
Until next time.. :)
