June 1

(Photos: Me and Marlous doing homework)

Beautiful and wonderful day in Costa Rica today! I cannot believe I have already been here over a week. Time flies so fast! Today my new friend Perry said it exactly right, “You know those people who it seems you have know forever…” Yep that is exactly how it is here, everyone gets so close and bonds together. Today I am feeling much better! The different medicines from around the world helped! It is funny, while writing this I have to translate what I want to say back into English so if it doesn’t make sense I’m working on my English J Today the internet was down at school and everyone was freaking out, I got lucky because my mamatica (Costa Rican mother) let me use the one at home tonight. Tonight I realized how much Spanish I have actually learned in one week, its crazy! I love hanging out with my family here. There is the mother, Annabel, the aunt, three daughters 24,21,17 and sometimes a baby and two boyfriends. It’s great practice trying to talk to the family and teach them things. I taught them how to make rosaries, to sign their names and some small words in sing language, and how to laugh at the English girl trying Spanish. Tonight I got great news from home, and it just shows how blessed I am and how God is just so good! Thank you for keeping me in your prayers! I was so excited about checking my emails that when I got to talk to Sarah I didn’t know what to do! Everything was too perfect and I was so happy that I started crying, I then had to explain to my family that they were happy tears. Tonight my friend Marlous came over and we took amazing pictures, showed each other pictures from home, and did our Spanish homework. She is a wonderful person and I have been lucky to get to know her better. Its good to have someone to ride the bus with, tell stories to, and do homework with. She lives 10 houses away so we get to spend a lot of extra time together. I think I might start planning a trip to Holland!! Haha oh life is good and I am so happy! I am thinking about leaving class next week and doing a volunteer project to practice Spanish in a different way and volunteer because I miss it. This weekend we are going to Boca del Toro in Panama. We stay at Aqua lounge on a little island, we looked up the pictures and Marlous screamed, it is that beautiful. I’m so excited! We have a different group this week so it will change it up but I am excited to get to know new people. I am so excited!!! The pool is cut in the dock on the island and is just the ocean passing through, its going to be paradise. It’s hard to go to sleep because real life here is better than dreaming! Good night world!