I'll start with my first day in Puriscal. It was pretty overwhelming, but definitely exciting. Our families greeted us as we unloaded our luggage from the bus, and my first impression was that us exchange students were the tallest ones in the group. I guess height is one thing that can't be gaged on skype. There was a performance of a typical Costa Rican Dance, and then everyone went their separate ways. My family has a pickup truck, so unlike a lot of the people who walked home, Erica (an Italian student living with my granparents) and I loaded our luggage into the truck bed and headed home. In the car, my host mother gave me flowers and my host grandmother gave me a little "M" statue that now sits above my bed.
My family's house is on the same property as my father's parent's house. I pretty much consider them my two houses because I'm always going back and forth between the two. Here is my house:
I took the picture from the other house, so you can tell how close they are. And here is their house:
My dad's parents live here with their 19 year old son Berny, and now Erica and Taylor (a former AFSer from the US who has returned for a gap year) live there too.
And here is my room:
There are three bedrooms in my house, so I sleep in this one, my parents and baby sister sleep in one, and then my mom's sister (who lives with us) sleeps in the third.I'm not gonna give you a play by play of these first ten days, because that would take too long, and I'm sure you would get bored. Instead I'lljust highlight a few of the many exciting things I´ve done so far.
Last Monday, the day after I arrived in Puriscal, I went to San Jose with mi abuela, Erica, Cris (Berny's girlfriend), and Lara (an Austrian AFSer whose exchange ended yesterday). Erica needed to go shopping for school shoes, but we also saw some famous landmarks of Costa Rica:
Catedral Nacional de Costa Rica |
Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica |
Wednesday I hiked the "mountain" across the street from my house, which is actually somewhere between a hill and a small mountain, but was very tiring to climb. I was with Erica, Taylor, and a boy who lives on our street and is a freind of the family, since mi abuela insisted that we bring a boy with us for "protection."
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View of my neighborhood from the top |
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Me with the calf |
Erica and I half way up the mountain. |
Anyway, I'll write more about school later becasue there's a lot to tell. Oh and I also have to write about my adventures on Sunday, ziplining and repelling down waterfalls! I have tons of pictures and videos, but you'll have to wait. This is enough stuff for one day.
that sounds soooooooo exciting, how many weeks do you have left in CR? Sounds like you're having a great time!
ReplyDeleteSadly, I only have 4 weeks left :( But yes I'm having lots of fun!
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