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Hello there!!

Sorry it has been a while since I’ve written… This week was midterms, and I was a little busy studying. J I hope it paid off! Anywho, this past weekend, we went to THE BEACH on Saturday! We went to Puntarenas.  According to Rebecca (a girl who lives in my town), it’s the ugliest beach in Costa Rica. If that’s the truth, then I could totally handle any beach this country has to throw at me.  It was gorgeous!! It had black sand and a ton of swing sets and basketball courts.  Basically, I was in heaven (as you can tell from the pic below). 

On Sunday, nothing was planned.  It happened to be my “nephew’s” birthday here who lives next door.  This gringo: not invited…unless she wanted to awkwardly sit in the corner.  Luckily, my padre came over and gave me a “salchicarron” which is grilled sausage on a tortilla with pico de gallo. It was wonderful! Also, he gave me another one of the same but with steak instead of the grilled sausage.  They were amazing.  Then, he told me I could go back home if I was feeling weird because he could understand me feeling uncomfortable.  I thanked him about a billion times and then left. I then heard the doorbell ring and it was Brittany (a girl who lives across the street).  She wanted to go check out this café and study.   They had free wifi and wonderful cinnamon rolls.  I got to skype with my parents, Jared, Karen, Nathan, Noah, and Joely! It was the best because beforehand, I was feeling very homesick for really the first time here.  It think it was because nothing was planned and I wasn’t feeling the most welcome at my own house here.  All in all, it turned out to be a pretty successful day!

On Monday, we had normal classes which were basically used to review.  Then after class, we had dancing lessons!  If I didn’t think I was awful at dancing before, I know it now.  Thankfully, I think I am learning a thing or two about dance in Costa Rica, and it has been so fun! At the going away party, we are supposed to dance “classic Costa Rican dance” with our families.  That will be very interesting!  

Yesterday, we had our first two midterms.  They were in culture (which I think I rocked!) and literature.  Culture is so interesting because we are learning so much about Costa Rica.  I absolutely love learning about it, which is weird since I never really liked history when I took it at home.  And literature was SO DIFFICULT. We read a story that is written in old Costa Rican Spanish.  Most words aren’t even in our dictionaries.  So, you can only imagine how the test went.  Everyone in both classes felt like the exam was way over their heads.  Hopefully, the teacher will see that we all didn’t understand and give us another shot…but who knows.  After school, we went to my favorite gelato place.  Which apparently has free wifi as well (they just don’t advertise it!). So I got some lovely vanilla and oreo gelato and got to skype with bri bri! After, I just went home and studied all night for my midterms.

Which brings us to today.  Finally, grammar, composition and conversation are over! All I have to worry about now is packing for Bri Bri!! I am totally stoaked for this five day trip.  I know that it will be the experience of a lifetime and I can’t wait to tell you all about it!

And now, I’m off on another adventure to the Centro. Love you all very much! J