I am so excited about this trip. I have read and heard so many good things about Costa Rica, which is helping me get excited. I believe that my host family will be wonderful and I am so excited about meeting them. I will be staying with a family that has three younger children. I am excited about this since I will have new younger "siblings". I am hoping that my family can help teach me more Spanish and about their culture. I am also excited about being in the school. I feel that I will learn a lot from the teacher about classroom management and hopefully Spanish.
Even though I am excited I do have some fears. I worry that I will not understand what people will want to tell me and that they will get frustrated with me. I will use Spanish whenever I can but I fear that my Spanish will not be very good. I also have a fear of getting lost. I believe this goes along with my Spanish skills. I worry that somehow I will get separated from the group and I wont be able to communicate what I want to. The final fear I have is offending my host family. I already care about them so much and the last thing I want to do is something that will hurt or upset them. I have spent time reading about their culture and I will do my best to please them.
Overall I feel that this will be a wonderful experience and that I will learn a lot about teaching, cultures and myself.