Day Four - It's a Monsoon!
Hola Chicos y Chicas!
Today was our first rainy day of our trip. Right now we are in the green season in Costa Rica, which basically means it will be raining, if only for a little bit, every day that we are here. Truth be told, this morning, Kelly and I woke up to a misting of rain. Perhaps that's why I was able to sleep so well last night.
To make the rain feel like no issue at all, my host mother, Maji, made us pancakes this morning. The pancakes were awesome, and we ate them with honey. It was super sweet, but really good nonetheless. I love our breakfasts in the morning...I just we had as much time or a host mother to make them for us back in Minneapolis.
Classes weren't too bad today. Review of verbs and numbers. However, we did have a comico moment thanks to me. We were talking about money and buying items from the super mercado and I asked what you would call a piggy bank in Spanish. My maestra had no idea what I was talking about, so I tried to use my broken Spanish and came up with "Banco Puerco." After I said that, the laughter almost didn't stop for the rest of the class. We tried really hard to find some sort of word to describe a piggy bank, but it was to our dismay. Finally, un chico who works at the school had the answer for us - alcancina.
After class, I went to go do my homework, but as I was conjugating my verbs, it started to rain. No just your regular day rain, not just your thunderstorm rain, but rain like you see in the movies like a monsoon. It was pouring in sheets for about an half hour! I guess I understand why they have such deep gutters in the streets. I tried to take a picture of the rain, but the photo would not do the rain justice. Take my word for it, it was crazy.
The activity for the night was a short bus ride to Heredia to see a movie in Spanish at the mall. Kelly and I chose to see Cars 2. I felt like I was a baby again watching the film. I could pick up about 20 percent of what they were saying, but I mostly stuck to following the pictures. It may seem like a waste of money to see a film in a language you barely understand, but our tickets were 2000 colones a piece - 4 bucks - so overall it was a pretty cheap date.
Prior to the film, we got dinner at the mall food court. Sweet, right? A Costa Rican food court with Costa Rican inspired food. Not so much. It was like I was transplanted back to Gurnee Mills with the McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Taco Bell, Quizznos, etc. We tried our best to find something that we couldn't get at home, but we settled on this pizza and chicken place because it had a vegetarian option. Skeptical as I was to have pizza in Costa Rica, the food actually was pretty good. Reminded me a lot of the decent pizza you can get in Kenosha. Not so much Carl's, but pretty darn close.
We're still having a great time, but we're sad to be leaving our family in San Jaoquin de Flores. Dos mas dias here - let's try to live it up!
Pura vida,
Casey
Today was our first rainy day of our trip. Right now we are in the green season in Costa Rica, which basically means it will be raining, if only for a little bit, every day that we are here. Truth be told, this morning, Kelly and I woke up to a misting of rain. Perhaps that's why I was able to sleep so well last night.
To make the rain feel like no issue at all, my host mother, Maji, made us pancakes this morning. The pancakes were awesome, and we ate them with honey. It was super sweet, but really good nonetheless. I love our breakfasts in the morning...I just we had as much time or a host mother to make them for us back in Minneapolis.
Classes weren't too bad today. Review of verbs and numbers. However, we did have a comico moment thanks to me. We were talking about money and buying items from the super mercado and I asked what you would call a piggy bank in Spanish. My maestra had no idea what I was talking about, so I tried to use my broken Spanish and came up with "Banco Puerco." After I said that, the laughter almost didn't stop for the rest of the class. We tried really hard to find some sort of word to describe a piggy bank, but it was to our dismay. Finally, un chico who works at the school had the answer for us - alcancina.
After class, I went to go do my homework, but as I was conjugating my verbs, it started to rain. No just your regular day rain, not just your thunderstorm rain, but rain like you see in the movies like a monsoon. It was pouring in sheets for about an half hour! I guess I understand why they have such deep gutters in the streets. I tried to take a picture of the rain, but the photo would not do the rain justice. Take my word for it, it was crazy.
The activity for the night was a short bus ride to Heredia to see a movie in Spanish at the mall. Kelly and I chose to see Cars 2. I felt like I was a baby again watching the film. I could pick up about 20 percent of what they were saying, but I mostly stuck to following the pictures. It may seem like a waste of money to see a film in a language you barely understand, but our tickets were 2000 colones a piece - 4 bucks - so overall it was a pretty cheap date.
Prior to the film, we got dinner at the mall food court. Sweet, right? A Costa Rican food court with Costa Rican inspired food. Not so much. It was like I was transplanted back to Gurnee Mills with the McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Taco Bell, Quizznos, etc. We tried our best to find something that we couldn't get at home, but we settled on this pizza and chicken place because it had a vegetarian option. Skeptical as I was to have pizza in Costa Rica, the food actually was pretty good. Reminded me a lot of the decent pizza you can get in Kenosha. Not so much Carl's, but pretty darn close.
We're still having a great time, but we're sad to be leaving our family in San Jaoquin de Flores. Dos mas dias here - let's try to live it up!
Pura vida,
Casey
Labels: Heavy rain, Pancakes, Piggy bank, Pizza Cars, Rainy morning
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