just kidding! this is amazing! i have only been here for a few days but i am loving it. The family does not speak any english which is hard to deal with but luckily Nestro a student from venezuela lives with us too and he is a great translater and my roommate speaks some spanish.
Mama Eugenia and Papa Alfredo are very nice people as near as i can tell one of them is a vet or they jsut own a dog grooming shop or pet shop. they have 3 kids ..Maria 14..Alfredo 10 (i think).. and Luiz 2 and a half.....plus four dogs that go to the bathroom at the bottom of the stairs to our apartment every night.
thats right we (matt myself and nestro) have our own 3 bedroom apartment which is tight
alfredo(the kid) trys hard at basketball but is not very good. he was amazed at mine and matts skills in the sport. all we have played is horse and as of now matt is king of the 7 1\2 foot basketball goal but not for long..........he only wins by positioning himself behind alfredo so he gets to the end of the game with no letters.
the native cuziene (sorry no spell check on the spanish computers) is all i expected it to be..............but at the house we do not eat much of it. My homestay food is really americanized We had pancakes for breakfast and cut up hotdogs and mashed potatoes for dinner on our first day. im not complaining it is just not what i expected.
They do not lie about the rain. So far it seems to be all afternoon and into the night sometimes.
And the clothes do not dry after the rain...im glad i do have the wicking and fast drying clothes
The sun rises mucho earlier here in the land of the tico and i found that out the hard way. I woke up at 530 the first morning to a room full of sunshine and looked at my alarm clock only to see 532 and thought for sure that it broke and i was late for the first day of activities but then i found my watch and it said 532 too and i was dumbfounded by the early sunrise...........then i went back to bed for 2 hours
The frist day we took a tour of san jose and i wish i had a bigger memory card for my camera hopefully i can find one here so i can take many more pictures the 600. the city is different than what i am used to and it hit me walking through san jose that i am actually in a different country but just a little. i could easily mistake san jose for a city in the U.S. that i have never been to....but i feel that once we get out of san jose this weekend it will really hit me
the group is really fun. i like everyone so far and know pretty much every one pretty well know.we are going to be a tight knit group by the end of the trip and when we go back we will propabaly all be good friends. we had a good time at one of the local bars last night and we plan to find another tonight
class starts tomorrow officially...we went to a business today that i will write about at a later time because now i am going home to start readign before dinner and a good time tonight.......until next time
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