I can't believe that i've already been here for almost a month, but at the same time, I feel like i've been here forever. I definately feel at home now, and I am totally comfortable in my new life. Marielos, my host mom, never stops feeding me, so i'm going to come home very gordita. I joined a gym to hopefully keep that from happening...too many trips to the beach and too much time in baithing suits for me to get fat. Last weekend at Playa Conchal was amazing...like, "holy shit i found paradise" kind of amazing. At first glance it looks like a normal, beautiful, sandy beach, until you look closer and step onto the 'sand...' because its not sand, its billions of conch shells. Most of them are ground up into tiny pieces, but they are all shells. I'm bringing home a bottle filled with them! We also saw a howler monkey, which was super badass.
This weekend we're hanging around home...went to some museums in San Jose, went to a small town called Heredia thats about 11kilometers from San Jose to walk around and explore a bit. Went out last night to sort of celebrate valentines day...or Dia de los Enamorados, as it is called here. I also talked to my drunken mother who called me a little shit...that made me really miss home. Speaking of home, a big felicidades to my smartypants sister who keeps getting into grad schools. I have decided for her that she is going to Tufts so that way we can hang out in Boston. Oh, and I booked my flight to Buenos Aires for early April to visit her, which I am verrryy excited about!
My other big adventure has been dealing with dentists...thanks to my lovely dentist back home who clearly cannot put in fillings and who hopefully does not read my blog. Sooooo I have to get a cavity re-filled, hopefully tomorrow. But I first went to the clinic at my university, where I felt very proud of myself for dealing with everything in spanish. Once I was told that yes, I did need my cavity refilled, I decided to find a private dentist (everyone at the clinic were students, and my guy had braces and couldnt have been more than like 12. Yana, I swear to god, if it wasnt for you I wouldnt have let them near me or my teeth. But I just pretended that it was you and your fellow students and let them do their thing), and everything should be taken care of soon. But it was nice to know that I can pretty much deal with any situation, completely in spanish, and feel confident about it. Hopefully I remember the words for "help," "novacaine," and "no, I don't want it extracted." That last phrase is actually in one of my phrasebooks, and my friends very lovingly told me that I should probably memorize that one. Thanks guys.
I'm trying to think of any other adventures that I've had, but life is pretty low-key right now I'm just enjoying the weather, the people, pretty much everything. My family is just about ready to book their trip to come visit at the end of my program in May...I am super pumped to show them around Costa Rica and have them get a little taste of my life here. Anyone who wants to tag along, I'm sure you can hide in a suitcase.
Hasta luego...
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