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Tuesday was decent, nothing overally exciting happened. Had a lot of deuteronomy classes though and of course there all in spanish! but luckily tom is willing to go over at the end of each other kind of a quick synopsis of what they talked about for the ppl who arent fluent in spanish like me! haha. had the afternoon free which is nice as my ministry was on monday and since other ppl have ministries on tue and what not the rest of us get it free :) got a new project to start working on, its on faith and is like one of the "bigger" projects you could say. also our paper on that bible class - deuteronomy is due on friday, its gonna be kinda insane attempting to get it done by than but quite doable! so i went for a 14 lap run today! new record! but its sooo tiring going that long, im quite happy though that i managed to make it! yesterday all the girls met and we have plans to go hang out at isa's house on thurs afternoon which will be pretty awesome :) just hang, eat, talk about what girls talk about and what not! im stoked!! have my 5th camineta today and its with tanis! that should be good to get to know her better! and work day as well is happening today, should be intresting, i hope i dont anything too crazy!! guess we"ll see! cheers!

"First Official Official Day"

So yesterday spanish classes r done, and now the classes r in spanish! the class in john is still bilingual but our new class on Deutonomy we started today will be spanish...should be intresting. and today was the day of my new daily duity, im cleaning the kiosko with cody and thats not too bad he takes cares of all the spiders so thats nice! i also went to my ministry today, its the kids soup kitchen with adam, nina and stephanie, and it was exhausting but o so fun! we played some games than did a devotional on creation and that was pretty cool and than some more games than we left! oo i also went for a 13 lap run yesterday morning! which is around 5k, so thats good :) and well i love my family here! they are so awesome and ya there sweet. but today was pretty awesome overall and we found out whos in our family night. so that should be awesome, im stoked for that! cheers!

Weekend with my Costa Rican Family!!

It was kinda graduation on friday ina  way or part of it and we were all supsoe to dress up as little kids and so that we did and pics r up on fb so u should def check them out :) and also they shipped us off all over the place to costa rican families. i was super super nervous. I was staying with someone named Adrianna Montero and her family. So she came to pick me up and than we went to the university of Costa Rica and i sat through a 2 hr class!! it was soo coool!!!! i loved it than we went to her house(which is really nice and they are quite well off) and we watched a movie and than on sat we went to san jose and hung out, saw a band play, went to a couple musuems, went to a couple stores, got 21 postcards hahaha and than in the eveing we went to her church and there was a reunion of young ppl and so i met ppl from that church and that was cool! and than sunday we went to that church, and than had lunhc and than wathced a movie becasue it was raining and depressing outside than kylie and the person she was statying with came over since they wre like best friends and we watched another movie with them!! so fun!! and than we went back to Portantorchas. Around 8 we had worship night, and that was awesome, had some flan dessert something thing after it was pretty decent, so overall it was pretty good weekend!! luckily for me she spoke englihs, and as much as i attempted to speak myslef spanish, well i ended up speaking mostly english...lol. but still awesome :) and today is the "offical first day" you could say and im off to my ministtry today!! should be intresting!!! cheers!

Thurs.

So yesterday was pretty sweet. Went for about 3 miles(5k) ish run with jose, pica and adiar out and about in the streets, we did this loop thing so that was sweet, nice to get out and run on something other than the track! for family night we just asked random quesitons and than whoever wanted to answer could and they were really funny questions too so lots of laughs :) officially done my paper, i just need to print it off, my proofreaders never got back to me so i did it myself...hope its okay. and yesterday at the countryside i made costa rican bread, tortiallas and milked a goat!! it was sooo cool! took me a while to acutally get some out but it was awesome when i acutually got it out!! and pics r up on fb so check them out!! today heading off to the family today in costa rica, soo nervous but really excited at the same time, hopefullly i can keep up my spanish!!! hhhm...smell of french toast is in here, soo good! cheers!

A most intresting day yesterday

So yesterday was intresting, im pretty sure i bombed my spanish exam...lol it was quite difficult i was getting all of the verb endings mixed up and forgetting them and it was just bad but i guess mabye theres a chance ill pass haha. oral exam i did okay so thats good. we also found out what our ministry r going to be now, im in the soup kitchen with the kids with adam, steph and nina. its gonna be awesome but theres a dec amount of kids so that should be intresting how the 4 of us manage to get them all occupied and involved..if we even can. but god will be there with us so we can rest assure knowing he will help us :) during the sem we have to visit 3 other times to another ministry either the same on or different ones. Im planning, if possible to go to cumbre camp for 2 weekends and the montana camp the another weekend just so that i can get experience what the camps r for next sem if i wanna do it. as those were my next choices i just didnt know if i wanted to be away for 4 or 6 weekends depending on what camp you chose. So now i just need to talk to the leaders of each group and get it set up. after supper we had a most awesome worship night. there were candles lit around the room and in the middle they were in the shape of the heart and than we all sat on the floor around it and dimmed the lights, sang praise songs, prayed and than had communium and than prayed with each other and it was absoultly amazing and powerful! :) today we are going into the countryside to visit other costa rican families so that should be exciting! and than friday is my graduation from spanish...if i graduate :P i dunno after that test though....but than after for that weekend were gonna stay with a costa rican family for the weekend...im super nervous but it should be super fun....i think...more or less i just hope i can carry a decent convo! i know God will help me but i really do hope that someone knows even a bit of english! breakfast is earlier today at 7:15 instead of 7:45 as we wanna leave at 8. should be fun! cheers!

Begginning of the 3rd Week!

So today and yesterday were pretty chill days. nothing too exciting happened. We had worship in the morning than spanish class than afternoon free than our class on John in the evening. That was monday, today we had spanish, than picked our top 3 ministires that we wanted to do and now we have free time. my top 3 were the kids soup kitchen, helping out a bible camp, y hanging out with girls in this community for a couple hrs a week. but there is soo much spanish homework to do for tomorow. examen, a presentation about our first month here. its insane the amount i need to memorize tonight...its great. right now theres like a gizillion ppl in here its intresting as theres a bunch of different convos going on and what not, quite intresting to hear what some people say. All i have left to do for my book paper thing is the personal application part which im planning on finishing it up tomorow and than sending it off to proofreading! well off to do finish my presentation for spanish tomorow! cheers!

Arenal Volcano

So on sat/and sun I was at arenal volcana area with everyone. It was so amazing! and the hot springs were great! so nice! really really hot though in some places. We got there and it has 3 slides and one you can get up to 45km an hr, soo fun! The volcano was beautiful, sadly it didnt erupt but thats okay! There was one hot spring that was sooo hot it was like 155 or something smiliar and you cant stay in it very long at all. there were some cold ones as well and there was a waterfall one. it was really cool because there was different sections and every section that was closer to the waterfall got hotter and hotter. you could sit under the waterfall and it was really fun but oh so hot. pics should be up on fb soon! however, It started to pour rain near the end of the day and i mean pour. with lots of lightening and thunder and it was kinda cool. Jose and Austin were a bit loco, as when that was happening they went into the pouring rain and went into the hot springs...smart thing to do with the intense lightenting and thunder. lol. the bus ride was 3 hrs long, but on the way home i ended up singing veggie tales with steph and kylie and than had some comedy listenting them talk in british accents for like an hr or so. they are soo funny but soo good at it! than after we had worship night and that was nice to sing songs. but i wasnt feelign my greatest as im pretty sure i got a minor case of heat stroke or what not, despite me drinking lots. oh and i managed to get burned on top of my head and the back of my neck...even though i brought 60 power sunscreen...it hurts to shower...but o well, hopefully it wont peel that would be nice. today is gonna be a good day! dont have anything until the evenign after spanish classes are done this morning, whcih were doing a presentation. cheers!

Bible School Pranks 101

So yesterday started out as harmless as could be. There was lunch, daily duties, went to san jose for a spanish outing(which is awesome and im def going back there soon as theres so much i wanna get), had our last prayer class and than supper. after supper the guys were gonna do there own thing at Pica's house and thats a bbq type thing and us girls were planning on watching the parent trap and maybe having a dance party in the casita. However a lot of the girls were on the computers skyping and what not. so we didnt really wanna do anything with only a couple ppl. So we decided to play a prank on the guys...at first we wanted to take their shoes from Pica's house and hide them but when we tried to get them it was too dangereous so we wanted to take their clothes and shoes (some where outside their doors) and hide them but were not allowed to go in so we tried to rope in the cook, Carlos, but he wouldnt and than we decided to hang the shoes from the chandelleir in the sala. Me and adri climbed up the stairs(to the guys area) and tried to see if any shoes were outside there bedrooms, but than dorathee who was keeping watch hissed and we knew someone was coming so we hurried downstairs and jeremey met us at the bottom, we attempted a quick cover-up about seeing ody(female of the marreid couple upstairs as well) and so than we just went into the sala and wanted and than adair and someone else got their shoes from outside in the end when jeremey left and adair started to hang them from the chandeller. It was pretty awesome(pics are taken and will be up soon) and than Austin comes into the sala, unexpected and what not so we try to bribe him with saying were make him stuff and what not but apparently not happening cause of a guys pact or something so he leaves(prolly to tell the other guys) so we start to lock the windows and doors, christoph, adam, and austin try to get in but we stopped them for a bit however we forgot that diego(one of the staff) has a key to the whole builiding...so that kinda failed. So we eneded up just leaving it at that(we had a few more ideas but had no ingredients) and went to watch the parent trap! and as we were watching that, some of the girls came and said they saw the guys down in the field with buckets....so now we were a bit worried....anyhoo me and a couple other girls went nonchantly for a walk and ended up seeing Austin with the bunnies(well attempting to catch them) and so we talked to him for a bit and he said we over analyze everything...maybe we did, maybe we didnt, anyhoo apparently we thought they might of put bugs into our area a.k.a spiders and so a few of us went to check and there was only 2 spiders on the floor...was that from them?? who knows. anyhoo that was that and than later on, i saw ethan and jose and christoph by the swing/bench area by our dorms so i went over there and katie was there. when i got there they were defintly acting unusally as they both started talking really fast, and about the most random things, like looney toons, sleeping in the dorms, etc...and i had a feeling they were up to something. but appaerntly accoriding to them thats how guys act but than cody came and i asked what was up and he said he didnt know as they were acting werid. well i called them loco and left and than they went to the kiosko thing where we were watching the movie and i went to the dorm area, i got inside and started to walk to my room but i never saw the bunny that was on the floor and when i did it gave me a living heartattack as they shouldnt be in that area and i shrieked and jumped back as it scared me(bunnies aren't scary btw but it more just startled me) and than they must of heard it cause they came to see what was happenign and they found me laughing my head off and telling katie that there was a bunny in the room, so she went to rescue it and the guys had a good laugh over that, and some of the girls did see ethan and jose carry a blanket type thing over to our dorm area, and so they were caught... while this was all happening, adair and a couple of the other girls that was the end of the pranks for that night...will moreroped in pablo(not one of the students there) to go and grab the guys swimsuits from there rooms so that they could wrap them in tinfoil and freeze them adn give it to them in the morning, they also amazingly enough got diego to help so he called all the guys to the office to talk to them about something while pablo went and got them, i came into the part where they were finishing makign them wet and wrapping them in tinfoil, they stuck them in the freezer telling the guys who wondered that it was burriotis for tomrow...anways a couple minutes later austin came and got them from the freezer....appaerntly werre not as sneaky as we thought....so that was a failed prank. so is there more to  come??!?!?! who knows...but what may of happend is starting a war between girls and guys! or maybe thats the end.... keep u updated! cheers!

Papers+Old People+Family Night

So yesterday was a good day, kinda really random stuff but good. So we had a hr of prayer or small group depenidng when you meet whether its on thurs or friday. I have an hr of prayer and i managed as well to finish my prayer paper yesterday! :) so its handed in and all good to go. Soo many ppl are doing it right now, its really funny, i try not to procastinate and so with that, i have started my paper on the book thats due next friday :) quite exciting! i just wanna get it done and over with. After lunch(i have lunch duty as my daily duty) we went to an old folks home place thing(forget the proper name) and they were cool. Some of them were really funny and there was one female who was in love with Cody, it was really funny. Literally your typical old people. We played bingo, it was pretty awesome, let me increase my understanding of numbers in spanish. After we had a family night after dinner and Mari(one of the 2nd sem kids) told us to come into our pjs. So at 7:15 we all gathered in the sala with our pjs. Some of the guys dressed up really funny with there pj pants pulled up really high and there shirt tucked in with high socks over there pant legs...it was intresting...and we first played never have i ever. that was really fun as well, learned stuff about ppl i never knew. we than did some really other random but fun games, some ppl had to balance a cookie on there head and only using their face make it to their mouth...the next one was eating a bowl of yougurt but you had a person behind you blindfolded and you had to direct them to your mouth(I did that one) it was a good one. Last it was a pineapple eating contest, 2 girls, a married acouple, and 2 guys made the teams and it was hilarious! such a fun night, after that Mari brought out homemade ice cream stuff and than there was costa rican cookies and marshmellows(they were really cool with the inside a different color than the outside) and than we ended up having a marshmellow catching with your mouth contest and the people who did it ended up whipping the marshmellows really really fast and hard and some acutally looked like it hurt. A few of us than went outside to play ninja! that was such a fun game! :) love it! and after everyone either went to bed or started to work on their papers, i ended up going to the kiosko to work on my book paper there and adam,austin and stephanie were there as well doing their prayer paper. Than i went to bed close to 11 and woke up this morning at 6 and went for a run! just a mile but im glad i acutally got up this time...cheers!

The Last Few Days (Since Sun When I Wrote Last)

So far my week has been good, i found out I got a A- on my first paper which is pretty exciting! Had a spanish test today which I think i did not so good on, but I did decent on my other one...so hopefully it evens out. Finished my prayer paper today just gotta get it proofread than it will be fini! :) For the caminata today I was with Steph! It was awesome, if your wondering who Steph is she is the blond haired girl I took all those pics with in the van!! lol. (there up on fb). Yesterday we went to a another ministry to check it out, it was a womens home for us girls to go to and a guys home for the guys to go to. It was pretty awesome, we played games, had cookies and juice and chatted. Monday was just an awesome day, got sooo much done and had awesome skype convos with jana, bryan and laura! On tuesday we had a another class on John, it was pretty awesome. And today we had work day, i got the joy of having to do the dorm bathrooms(thats where I am) and so me and Sam did them and it was pretty sweet. The one thing i like about work day is that after your work is done we are done for the evening!! :) im excited for tonight...dont really know what i'll do but something awesome hopefully! lol. cheers!

Most Randomest Sunday Ever!

So went to a new church on sunday, it was pretty awesome, i really really liked it. After church me and texican wanted to make brownies so we went to the megasuper in the pouring rain...it was great and there was no brownie stuff so we ended up making cake! but we werent sure where to go so kelsey suggested pica's house (hes one of the staff here but thats not his real name just a nickname) and so we went to his house but we heard voices so we didnt wanna go in so we kinda peeked around the corner and into his house but than we felt akward so we left and than as we were leaving he comes to do the door and is like uh, do you guys want something?? and so than we ask if we can use his kitchen and hes like yup so me and texican go make brownies. its really fun and than we chill and watch soccer with him and than becca joined us and pablo so than it was us 5 watching first soccer than this show(forget the name) than we started to watch you've got mail but than it was time for supper so we couldnt...but it was sooo fun!! apparently however a bunch of ppl were waiting for us to watch amovie as tahts what we were planning on doing but we forgot so they just watched it without us. but thats okay casue we had lots of fun at pica's house!! after supper a bunch of us went to tom's house(hes the director) and made cookies, had popcorn and m&m's and watched an episode of little house on the praiire with him, his wife and there 3 kids. it was soo fun!! than went to bed, really random dayy but soo fun!!! and today is mothers day in costa rica so we have no classes :) its awesome!! cheers!

White Water Rafting 101 + Guitar 101 + Cornado 101

So white water rafting was really really fun!!! my group was pretty sweet, and we had an awesome guy leading us. his name was Carlos and he was really fun and we did some crazzy things. Like flippping over our raft and brining the front into the air so we get like a straight up angle and what not. didnt fall off which was good but i did scrape my toe on a rock, but it wasnt really too bad, but it still hurts like no other even though its kinda tiny. Pics are up on fb so def check them out :) it was also raining a bit when we were on the lake! it was soooo nice!! the rain was really warm and wasnt cold at all...i really really love costa rican weather!!! and so on friday Cornado was really fun too. spoke some spanish and went around to different places, walking home got caught in the rain, it was awesome...kind of. But now i know how to get there so thats nice, and we have a long weekend because of mothers day on monday. so no class on monday :) yay! more time to finish homework.....lol. Im learning to play guitar, started 3 days ago. and i already know 5 cords and learning the beggining of blessed be your name and you and me by lifehouse.  im soo stoked to be learning guitar...finally! ive wanted to play it for soo long! thanks to rebecca and austin for showing me some stuff. rebecca is my main teacher but austin showed me start and cords of blessed be your name which im quite graeteful for as people are able to acutually teach me!! woo! cheers!

Football Game + Random

So we played soccer at the church yesterday. It was really really fun! we were split into 3 teams and we got to play for 2 hrs. i dont really know who won, but my team won a decent amoutn of games which is awesome.It was on a turft field and its really cool to play in the evening when the lights have to be turned on. So i was going towards the ball and somehow i fell and hit my back on the cement....it hurt quite a lot but funny thing is, i pulled a groin muscle and that hurt a lot. but you know me, i kept on playing which im glad i did because it doesnt hurt anymore. So today we are off to Coronado which is like this shopping area place thing. we have to talk to some random ppl and ask them to questions and than find that place and than after, have to do a presentation on it on mon....that should be intresting. Im super stoked! its gonna be so fun to practice speaking it. and of course us females can only ask females the questions. Makes sense and im glad for that rule. casue when ur a grenga(i dunno how u spell it but thats what "non ticos/ticas" are called you tend to get a lotta looks, whistles stuff like that beacause with our pale skin and blond hair and what not, we stand out quite a lot and we get a lot of attention which is unwanted! but what can you do. Ooo so me and adiar went to the ATM and bought ice cream yesterday by ourselves!! it was exciting!! first time on our own outside the gates :) and...WHITE WATER RAFTING IS TOMOROW! soooooooo excited!!!! :D cheers!

First Official Work Day/Caminata

So yesterday was a caminata which is walking with someone for half an hr. we have a sheet that shows who were with. I was with sara(who is toms wife) and so we went a bit earlier because she had to do errands and so texican was by herself so than i went with her and we ended up running around the track and listening to music. alll together with my run in the morning and in the afternoon i did 2 miles. it was kinda insane but awesome. After was work day and I with katie,rebecca and ethan got to watch the cars, took us a couple hrs but it was pretty sweet. 2 big vans and than a truck and a car to wash. it really wasnt that bad, first time washing a car so learned something new! On a side note, me and adair swithced beds and so now im on the bottom which wil be good as im scared still to sleep on the top. Spanish exam went well i believe, hopefully find out today what i got and my paper for the class "principals of the christian life" is due tomrow and im finished it!! i just needa print it and paste it in my book than im done! :) cheers!

Falling off the Bed and Ministrys

So 2 nights ago on mon evening i fell off the bed. Had a dream about big spiders on the ceiling and so than itried to get out of there but must of missed the ladder and fell down to the ground...it hurt. luckily god was with me and i only had a lot of bruises and a few cuts. Anyways i was in pain for the rest of the day. Apart from that yesterday was good. Had spanish class again, and a class on Juan. Almost done my paper thats due on friday on the principals of the chrisitan life! we also went to a kids home to hang out with kids, which is another possibltiy of a minisrty we can choose to do during the week. the kids are soo cute! i love them soo much! i really dont know what to choose...but i think we may have a couple more were doing before we acutually get to choose. Today i have a spanish exam, that should be intresting. I should prolly review my notes now...Cheers!

My Birthday in Costa Rica!

So I woke up and had a lovely start to my day. I went to go for a run thinking it was 6 since Adair was supose to set the alarm but she sent it an hr later and so i went to go for one and i ask someone the time since the table was set and they told me it was 7 10. so that made me rush and to top it off, i was having a shower and looked up and a spider was crawling on the wall...oh joy. and than i got out of the shower and banged my back on the corner of the wall. and that was morning. breakfast was good, at the end adair mentioned everyone should sing me happy birthday and so they did in spanish and english!! it was quite awesome! and after we had some worship than spanish class and than lunch and than off we went to a soup kitchen for kids as theres gonna be different ministires we look at and we can choose what we wanna do and that was that today so i gotta play with kids!! it was sweet! i lloved it soo much!! and than me and bunch of girls, went to POPs and this other smoothie place and we just chilled and hanged and had fun. Took a lot of pics and it was soo fun to hang out with them. and than supper happened and than there was a class on prayer and after that i finished my spanish homework. and now just chillin. defintly an intresting but sweet day for my birthday! cheers!

First Sickness of the Semester!

yesterday, In the morning some of us went to the farmers market and some of us bought a cocanut each and drank the juice from it(pics r on fb) and than i started to feel sick. So i gave it to Austin and he took some of it and said its sour, so i pretty much drank some sour cocunut juice...prolly not the best for me. anyways the feelign went away and than yesterday a bunch of us skipped lunch and went out to eat and shop and what not. and i was fine but than i got home, and got dinner and than i started to eat and i just felt awful, and so i quickly got up and left and than i just stayed in my room a bit and than i felt better adn went back to join the rest of supper but i must of looked really bad because ppl noticed and i got moved to the couch, given tea, and water and im pretty sure i drank 5 cups of liquid in an hr...it was kinda insane! and i was super cold despite me having a bunch of blankets and clothes on. anyways i ended up watching the emperors new groove with some ppl since we had a movie in the eveing and than i went to bed and literally passed out. and than this morning im pretty much 100%. we figured my sickness was from lack of sleep(from last night with the star trippin and what not) and than dehydration since i walked a lot and it was hot and i didnt drink as much as i should but the main factor being the sour cocunut juice...def an intrestnig experience!!! cheers!

It's Friday, Friday...(well was, nows it sat)

So yesterday was our last day of classes for the weekend! we had small groups in the morning, and than spanish class which i really should do the homework for today....and than we had our last class of the "principals of the christian life" and also have an assignement to do for that, luckily we have until friday :) classes ended at 4 and than went and had a quick but lovely shopping trip in the novacentro which we may be going to again today, in the evening everyone hanged and just chilled and than we saw a fair in the area so we got permission to go and we went to the fair, which had food, some rides, quite cool acutally. however when we came there everyone looked at us..why? because were a big group of white kids, it was kinda funny. some ppl went on some rides and it was pretty nice there overall and than we got back and we went to play sardines and me and texican...well we were the last ones and it toook us forever to find them!! and after that we went star tripping. now for those who hanvt done it, its when u concentrate on a star and spin really really fast and than when you"ve done that for a bit you get a light shone in your fast and for most ppl you end up falling, its really funny and really funny! some of us tried to run after or walk straight...it didnt work out too well. but def a keeper! im pretty sure we"ll be doing that again! After we ended up stargazing, all lying in a circle with our heads in the middle and there was shooting stars and loooking at stars and it was just really good for bonding and what not. When we got bored we went back to the main area place thing and Becca was sleeping on the couch, so we decided to move here outside. we took the couch and her and managed to move her outside with waking her up. left her out there for a bit while Austin took pictures/movie, and than she started to get cold but was still asleeep so than we moved her inside and than pretended to act all normal while we tried to wake her up...it took a decent amount, once shes out, she stays out but finally we got her up and to bed. it was soo funny! def a night to remember! Last night as well, i was laying in bed listening to my ipod and must of fallen asleep casue when i woke up and opened my eyes, i saw a face in front of me and i screamed...it was quite scary. turned out to be texican about to give me my ipod that fell off the bunk bed and was super loud that woke her up, we both scared the living daylights out of each other...kinda funny but awesome! cheers!

Earthquake 101 + Other Stuff

So experienced my first earthquake last night...it was intresting, sometime around 11 it happened and I was laying in bed and suddenly i heard some creaking and our bunk bed started to shake and so did the whole room in a wayy, it was totally trippy but i didnt freak out i just kinda laid back and tbh it felt really really cool. Texican(my roomie) thought i was shaking the bed but I had to tell her it wasnt me but an earthquake...that was kinda funny. i kinda hope to experience another one...as long as its not a big one!!
The weather was really nice today and still is!! despite having a small burn, my first one here and im planning on it being my last, its really really awesome out! Had our first "Principals of the Christian Life" class today, it was pretty decent and got our book that our homework will go into! Were gonna have at least one assignment for every class so it should  be intresting. Luckily they can be in english :) 2nd spanish class took place today and we learned soo much! i really like it and our teacher is awesome!! Our first "family night" will be tonight and for the month of aug, everyone will be together and than after we will be split into smaller groups and hang out once a week or what not so that should be fun. cheers!

Another Random Update!!

So today was awesome. We had our first spanish class today, it was pretty decent. Learned some sweet stuff and practiced it. even had some spanish homework...but im pretty much done now. Finished the book, that we were assigned to for our assignment for our prayer class. O ya, soccer today it was sweet, staff against students, of course i didnt get to play :( but i manage to take some pics so they should be up soon! we also learned about work day, and whats gonna happen and what not, and that will take place every wed. We also had our first camineta today which is were we walk around and chat with someone(girls with girls and boys with boys) so that we can get to know them better and it is about half and hr. Also did laundry for the first time today. Amazingly enough, it didnt really rain, which is like the first time ever since ive been here. So the weather was beautiful!! Dutch blitz is a really fun game, and we played it again today, we tend to play it mostly every day which is sweet. we also have a pingpong table and a foosball table. im slowly getting better at foosball(if thats how you spell it) and the computer room is really really crowded right now, 6 ppl all using the internet connection...kinda slow but o well it happens. and im also getting more friends from my school on fb which is sweeet! they are really cool, and so fun to hang out with!! cheers!

Hum Hee Hoo

Saw a big dead trantuala on the ground....really gross, :s and soccer was really really fun, playing with a bunch of classmates and than with all the costa ricans, there quite good but i held my own! :) had our first class on Juan yesterday, it was pretty good, were learning to a commentary on the bible. We also have bible chapters to read everyday and if we stick on schedule with it I could have read the whole bible by end of next sem! which would be soo cool! and theres also a bible verse to memorize...one every week. This weeks is "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength" Marcos 12:30. I can't believe its the first week and im already in love with this place, im really glad i get to be here for 4 months! I havnt reached the homesickness stage yet...who knows if i will, i"ll guess we"ll see. O and btw my birthday is in 5 days :) im sooo stoked! 19 in costa rica :) woop woop! Half and hr left to kill before the first spanish class :) its gonna be soo exciting!! And it just started to pour, so I've noticed a pattern. its really nice and hot in the morning and than in afternoon it rains and rains and rains until late evening usually. Oh and I tottally injured my foot yesterday playing soccer and I attempted to go for a run but it kinda failed, it hurts to put pressure on it. So I guess we"ll see what happens with it. Hopefully I can go running on friday! Cheers!

Monday!

So first official day was today, it was pretty awesome. Went for a run, and this time we grew some more. we had 3 guys and 4 girls, it was pretty sweet. and than breakfast happened and now we have daily duties that we will have to do for 2 weeks than it switches. they can include stuff like dishes either breaky, lunch,supper, laundry, cleaning etc... so thats pretty sweet. We also are split into 3 groups which are ppl who need to learn spanish, ppl who need to learn english and 2nd sem kids. So that was good, it was still intorduction stuff today and we just learned about the schedule and whats coming and what not. Sometime yesterday we also had a test and it was a written and oral one(group A) to see how we should split up into groups for spanish classes...lets just say i failed at the oral and the written made me really really mad because i learned evverything on that test in school but after a yr well i just forget everything. we had our first "bible class" yesterday. it was on prayer and i think for the next 2 weeks we will have prayer class. Tom is teaching it and its bilingual but listenting to it makes me wanna become fluent in spanish soo bad. The food is amazing here and i know im writing all over the place im just trying to remember what happened yesterday.  In the evening after prayer class and some of us(8) 4 girls and 4 guys ended up playing dutch blitz until 10:45 than we decided it was too loud so we ended up talking and i dont think i ever laughed soo much in my life in one evening ever!! it was soo fun. the guys are really cool here and fun to hang out with it, same with the girls. Daily duties are happening right now, I get the joy of not having any but i get to do the cena dishes in the evening. Big soccer game is happening this afternoon! and most of the students will be playing!!!yesterday me and adair wanted to play soccer and so we went outside in our cleats and it was raining and what not and than jose and austin came out and it was 2v2 boys against girls...and of course we won :) :P that was really fun! me and adair have a schuedle happeining for running in the mornings, mon, wed and fri we will run and wed is hill day!! tomorow should be fun....the hill is quite insane and prolly more girls and guys will come so that will be sweetness! and i just realized something, i tried to do the spell check but it says all the words are wrong as its not in spanish...its kinda funny. cheers!

Sunday!!

So sunday was pretty awesome, everyone finally is here!! and they are awesome!!! i went for a run with adair )rachel) yesterday and we did a mile!! life is awesome, i love it here soo much. and didnt do much apart from hang and chill and get to know everyone better. but in the eveining we had a worship and teaching time and it was really sweet because it was in spanish and english so im getting the best of both worlds! and after there was 4 of us who played dutch blitz and it was sweet than more ppl joined and we did double. Adam was on my time, first time playing for him and so he caught on pretty fast which was sweet. we won a couple of games. i love that game and we play it soo much here. and yesterday me and a bunch of girls, went to grab some ice cream, soo good where we went and now i know where a ATM and grocery store and ice cream is. me and Adair went and bought some stuff for our room, it was pretty awesome. and ya it was just awesome. anyways today is a pretty crazyy day soo many new things were learning but ill talk about that more later!! cheers!