(The Hike the 1st week for Holy Week)
Well it is the 5th week and things are starting to winddown... But now, I just feel like part of the family and Nicoya is home for me. My family here treats me like I´m truly in it. The grandpa and I have bonded so much!! His name is Che! We have been learning each other´s language. Last Wednesday, I walked the long hill again to the cross with him and ended the night with a crucial futbol (soccer) game in Nicoya with the fam. It was a professional game against San Jose and Guancaste. EVERYONE WAS THERE FROM NICOYA! Of course, I had my same dirty outfit I wore hiking and everyone else was looking fine and specify. My host mom laughed at my outfit! But it was so much fun! My family and all the little boys entertain for hours even while a soccer game is happening! Also, this week I bought some TICA jeans and just soo excited about them! I feel like I´m normal or I´m finally part of the culture because girls here always wear the skinny jeans! I still sadly live in a material world here. HA.
(Thursday: Dancing with the students at the club day)
Another adventure of mine consisted with a full day trip to San Jose and Herdia. At 4:00 in the morning the 10th and 11th grade class, teachers, and 4 of the student teachers all left to go all day to the InBioParque, a nun convent, and a mall to eat lunch and shop. It took about 4 hours to get there and thank goodness it was a big charter bus! I couldn´t have survived on the normal public transportation buses for that long!
It was an very neat experience! But once we got to San Jose, I felt like I was back in America. Taco Bell, Burger King, McDonalds, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut, and Subway were all in one block together with big buildings and malls nicer than ours in Boone. We ate in the mall and felt like we were back home, it was almost too wierd for all of us. But a very nice treat... s where my The nuns in San Jose there can´t leave the place at any time; the only way they can contact their family is if their family calls them or comes visit them, but that is it! The students were flabergasted as well as everyone else! It was kinda neat because while they nuns were speaking in Spanish I was understanding alot more than I would have the first week.
(Going to the other school in Cansas with HAROLD!)
I feel as if my Spanish is imporving so much and it is encouraging to my family and me! We had a little Chatholic Church servcice with the nuns, our sister Cicila, teachers, and students. It made me cry a little and refreshed my spirit! I wanted to know the songs really badly.. and I might get the lyrics before I leave! The parque was great as well. All in all- it was an awesome day! It was late when we got back, since it was about 9:30 at night and teaching the next day was hard, but it was a great experience!
This week is really our last real full teaching week and I can´t even think about home! I WANT TO STAY FOREVER!!
(my children!!! My family!!! I love them!!! It is Jose, Diego, and me)
till next time,
Sarah