This picture was the only decent one I could get when we were flying into San José. It was really cloudy and the sun was barely coming up when we were landing! The mountain is called La Carpintera (and our house is practically at the base of it! well, it feels like it anyway with how close it looks out our windows!)
We woke up today and went to visit both of our schools that we will be teaching in. We have absolutely NO hot water, so cold showers are in store for the next 4 months.. definitely not excited about that one! I'm thinking I need to chop all my hair off so I can make my showers shorter! (I won't do that, though! haha) But once out of the shower, dress, and downstairs for breakfast, the coffee warms me up quiet nicely! This morning we had pineapple, toast, and some other fruit that I don't remember the name. It was a verrryy dry fruit and the texture was rather interesting.. Emilia said it is full of fiber, I didn't really like it too much haha
At my school today, it is a Montessori, I found out that my students don't really speak much English (this is definitely going to be a challenge). However, since it is a Montessori school, I don't do too much instructing anyway. There is about 2 hours in the afternoon where the children count, do the alphabet, sing songs, do the days of the week/weather, and learn many new things in English. I think I will be able to handle this because it is things such as vocabulary about clothes, families, weather, etc. I only went for 2 hours today because it was just a little introduction and tour of the school. In my school there are babies from ages 6 months all the way up to kindergarten (obviously all in different rooms). It is very interesting and I am so excited to actually get started!! The days are very short, I arrive between 7 and 7:30 and leave around 1:00ish, which is much different than home. However, my Spanish is coming back to me a lot quicker than I thought it was going to! If they talk slow enough, I understand quite a bit.. and am able to speak enough for them to understand what I am trying to say! haha My students were so adorable and excited to have me there! They even threw me a little party complete with balloons and a cake =) The cake was called Tres Leches and was absolutely delicious! It was literally like there was milk in the cake.. we had to eat it with a spoon! Soooo good!
Last night we also went to the TerraMall (a shopping center a couple blocks from the house) and wandered around for a bit, got some Colones (their currency) from the ATM and bought a Spanish/English dictionary and Meghan got a "My first 1000 Words" book in Spanish. It has all the basic words in it that will be very helpful for us! The picture is taken on a little terrace at the mall.
Today Emilia made us some sandwiches for lunch, which I have no idea what she all put on it, but they were delicious! Along with a papaya smoothie! I could definitely get used to this Costa Rican food, but I will definitely be missing steak in about 2 weeks or so!!
Tonight we are going to explore our little town and probably go to the Hiper Mas (it's basically their wal mart). It is pouring right now, so we will probably take a quick siesta and head there when the rain has stopped and we wake up =)
This i
s Meghan in front of our house. All of the houses down here have fences all the way around them with the gates like that in front. The gate part to the right is actually the garage and is connected right to the house.
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