personal:first few days!

Heyyy everyone!! I am not sure where to begin so I will start with my home stay. We live with Sonia and her husband. She speaks very little English and he speaks ZERO! It is quite interesting trying to communicate with them especially when he picked us up from the University. This will definitely be a great learning experience. Their daughter just had a new baby the day we got here so one of the grandchildren have spent the night each night. Their granddaughter did the first night and her first impression of me was walking in on me putting on my towel (ooops!!) That is basically all I got to see of her other than her sleeping when we got to the house for the first time. The next night Diego was at their house and he is PRECIOUS!! All of the little baby boys make me happy and sad... reminding me of the little monster!! We walked around San Jose and went to some neat places. One of our guides pointed out the tallest building which he believes is only 7 or 8 stories! We went to this beautiful Catholic church and I will post pictures when I can. Mom this is for you: they have cows everywhere decorated like our flying pigs! One of my girlfriends was used as a pigeons bathroom (in her hair and arm) that is always fun. **Sorry this is kind of randomly flowing but there is so much we have done and it is mixing together!! I was very surprised by all of the stray dogs! It is actually sad because you can tell that they aren't taken care of and they are really dirty etc. :( I am also very surprised by the trash on the streets.


























I am going to start a new paragraph to give your eyes a little break. The phrase "when it rains it pours" defiantly holds true here. I don't think I can explain how much rain we had. It was interesting trying to walk home in it, our umbrellas and rain jackets weren't enough to protect us. We went to an information session today about our weekend trips. I AM SO excited for these. There are so many awesome things we will do which I'm sure all of you remember me bragging about. I was on the computer today and was hunted down for being late to the meeting spot because I do not have a watch and the computer had the wrong time. :( But I made it and we went to CINDE. This is a nonprofit organization here in Costa Rica. My ADD mind just brought me back to earlier in the day when we went to the bank. The building was awesome and it was NOT your average bank. There was a lot of security and you sat in chairs waiting to exchange money. I really want to learn Spanish and wish I knew more before I came on this trip, but I also believe it actually makes everything more interesting/exciting. I am getting pulled away, but I will be sure to post pictures ASAP and call once everything is figured out. I LOVE ALL OF YOU AND MISS YOU SO MUCH!! (well you know who you are ;) haha) I wish everyone could be here with me enjoying the experiences. I love you!! Adios!