As of a few days ago, I’ve been here for a month. It is lovely. School is fantastic, Heredia is interesting, my host family is wonderful…

I’m living with a Jewish family about a 40 minute walk away from my school. There is Oliva (my mom), Dani (my 16 year old brother), Ariel (an older brother) and Samantha (Ariel’s 3 year old daughter). There is much singing and dancing and general silliness in my house. Whenever bad happens, anything, we say “es culpa de Dani”-it’s Dani’s fault.

This weekend we went into San Jose to see a high school dance competition. Among other amazing and bizarre things, there was a dance condemning domestic abuse. This seemed like a reasonable idea until THEY BEGAN CHAIR DANCING TO BEYONCE’S “all my single ladies.” WHO THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE OKAY TO DO. Crazy things here, I’m tellin ya.

The Spanish is going all right. Stayed tuned, next post will be a crash course in Costa Rican slang…

Ciao.