Demasiada Lluvia!!

The title of my post means... TOO MUCH RAIN. And it´s completely true. Literally, it has not stopped raining for 5 days! However, I am really lucky because I live in the mountains there isn´t any flooding, but in a lot of areas in CR right now, most people do not have a house to live in. Still, I hope that the rains will stop soon because righ tnow as I am sitting in the internet cafe my shoes and legs are absolutley soaked and freezing. There is no way to prevent it, and I think my umbrella just broke, so I will need to buy a new one right away!

Haha, but really i´m still not having a bad time or anything, it´s just a lot of rain and it makes it really nice to sleep! Today was exciting because I had a meeting at the school I am going to be interning at, in the small town of Cacao. The director seemed really nice and told me i am going to be working with kinder! (the 5 year olds!) So, i´m really excited for this and I met the teacher who is a younger lady and she seemed really nice too. There are two groups of students, like a morning kindergarten and an afternoon, so the first one is from 7 am till 10 am, and then the other one is 12 to 230, so I told him I would come the first day at 7 and then just see if I should leave earlier or stay the whoel time. There is a cafeteria there where he said I coudl eat lunch and there is a cook who makes all the food right there, which of course is very different from cafeteria food in the states! Anyways, I am really exited to start going there everyday, I think I will enjoy my time a lot more when I am able to speak more spanish and actually apply my spanish versus always having to debate about things like in spanish classes at the institute.

However, I only have one more week of classes at the institute and then I am off to Nicaragua and then Puerto Viejo. This weekend I decided to just to stay home and maybe go into San Jose and stay there a night and go out to some clubs or something. Really with all of this rain and all fo the flooding, a lot of highways are hard to cross right now and it´s not fun to go to a place if it´s just going to rain the whole time. So i´m excited for a relaxing weekend at home and just hanging out around the house too... in dry clothes! haha.

Also, a little story about the culture here... it´s like a lot of latin american countries because the culture is centered more around the group versus the individual liek the states is. Anyways, this shows through all the time esp with Fernanda (the 5 yr old). The other day I gave her a reeses, it was one of the bite size ones that Rachel sent me. Anyways, I gave her one to try it but I didn´t want one so it was just her, but I even told her it was a present. Still, she told one bite and said how good it was, but she would NOT eat any more of it. I couldn´t really figure out why until finnaly I said we should split it and then she was really happy with that compromise. But remember that this isn´t even a whole reeses... it´s a bite size one! I just thought it was great to see how much they want to share and have everyone get an equal part. This happened before when Paula, Fernanda and I ended up splitting ONE mini M&M! They had to make sure everyone had a piece, and shannon said the other day that she split a candy bar 7 different ways. I just think it´s really interesting that this idea is even in Fernanda who is onyl five and almost all the kids I know would not resist eating a whoel reeses!

ookay well that´s it for now but hope everything is going well back in the states and let me know whats going on with you!