Mmmm Internets

Mood: Settled
Music: Britney Spears – Circus

My host family has wireless!!! Okay, not really, we steal it from the internet cafe down the street. But still.

Today was almost entirely travel. We left Bahia Salinas at nine and got back to Liberia at 10:30. I just had a quick hour for brunch with Dona Melida and Don Carlos (unfortunately, Edgar and Angeles weren't able to leave San Jose until 15:00, sad), and then after goodbyes and well-wishing all around, we hopped on a giant bus to leave for Heredia.

We got into Heredia around 16:00, and our host families picked us up outside UNA (the Universidad Nacional Autonoma, where I'll be studying this semester). My host mom looked... well, angry, and I was kind of nervous, but as it turns out, she always looks that way and never actually is :-). I live with Dona Dimia (my host mom) and her two daughters, Natalia, 23, and Sofia, 21. Natalia is studying to be a dentist, and has her last exam for her license coming up in September. Sofia is studying special education, though she still has a year to go. They're both really nice. Sofia reminds me so much of my friend Stephanie (especially with her facial expressions) that I constantly have to remember to call her the right name, haha.

Anyway, I haven't done much since I got here except unpack, talk and hang out with my family, and catch up on all the things I've been missing on teh internets. The house here is gorgeous – huge cathedral ceilings and open, well-lit rooms. Not to mention a view of the mountains out every window. My room is great, too. I have a corner room, so two windows, and one is an enormous bay window that lets in so much light and so much breeze. I have my own bathroom, complete with jacuzzi bathtub and hot water (which is a commodity here, let me tell you). And my family has a washer and drier, and knows how to use fabric softener!!! My life is officially perfect.

Pura Vida,
Sarah





P.S. - HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!! You're old, dude.