el parque, el baile y mi amiga nueva
(the park, the dance, & my new friend)
Yesterday Luisa and I took a field trip to InBioParque Costa Rica - which is a combination of zoo, science center, and arboretum. The park is unique because it is designed to represent the all of the distinct climates and landscape that exist in Costa Rica in one area. It was a perfect sunny day as for strolling through the bosque húmedo (humid forest) with all of its lush, thick vegetation and beautiful flowers, the bosque seco (dry forest) with its unique array of plants and wildlife, a garden with a variety of fruit trees, another garden of medicinal herbs and plants, a vegetable garden, and the farm (complete with pigs, goats, rabbits and a small barn. There was also a mini-butterfly farm where we walked through a sea of butterflies in a array of gorgeous colors. Among the animals I saw: iguanas (lots), turtles, deer, tarantulas (well, not really since I looked the other way), fish, and mini-crocodiles (i forget the proper name). It was a great place, and Luisa was a very knowledgeable tour guide. Minus the sack lunch, school bus, and 30 other classmates, it was just like the fieldtrips of the good ole elementary days. :)
This afternoon I had my first session of dance class. The instructor taught Gaby, Faby, and myself a number of highly intricate (okay, maybe not so much) and fun dance steps. Coming from someone who has not had an ounce of dance instruction in the past, I think I was truly living up to my ¨gringa¨ title at first, but hope I redeemed myself slightly in the end. After more classes in the next several weeks, I am sure I´ll be hitting up Soul Train - Latin America. :) It was actually quite a workout as well!
And the final news for today.... I made my first friend today! Well, first friend that I have met completely on my own that is. I was running around the neighborhood this morning and as I was returning to the school a fellow gringa asked me if I knew where a local museum was. She is from Tennessee and goes to school at U of Tenn but is currently an exchange student taking a semester of classes at a nearby University here. It turns out that she lives just a block from the school here! She asked me if I was a student as well and I explained that I was studying Spanish now but would be going to Limón to work at the church and teach English. She asked me about the church and my church back home and was thrilled to find that I was a Christian. Apparently I am the first American that is a Christian that she has met since coming here in January. Anyway, she said she would love to hang out sometime so I gave her my phone number. How crazy.
This weekend I am headed to Manuel Antonio with Pili (my other teacher) and her sister. They have an uncle that lives there that we can stay with. It is supposed to be a gorgeous Pacific coast beach city with lots of monkeys to be seen! I am sure I will have stories to report...
Adios!
Yesterday Luisa and I took a field trip to InBioParque Costa Rica - which is a combination of zoo, science center, and arboretum. The park is unique because it is designed to represent the all of the distinct climates and landscape that exist in Costa Rica in one area. It was a perfect sunny day as for strolling through the bosque húmedo (humid forest) with all of its lush, thick vegetation and beautiful flowers, the bosque seco (dry forest) with its unique array of plants and wildlife, a garden with a variety of fruit trees, another garden of medicinal herbs and plants, a vegetable garden, and the farm (complete with pigs, goats, rabbits and a small barn. There was also a mini-butterfly farm where we walked through a sea of butterflies in a array of gorgeous colors. Among the animals I saw: iguanas (lots), turtles, deer, tarantulas (well, not really since I looked the other way), fish, and mini-crocodiles (i forget the proper name). It was a great place, and Luisa was a very knowledgeable tour guide. Minus the sack lunch, school bus, and 30 other classmates, it was just like the fieldtrips of the good ole elementary days. :)
This afternoon I had my first session of dance class. The instructor taught Gaby, Faby, and myself a number of highly intricate (okay, maybe not so much) and fun dance steps. Coming from someone who has not had an ounce of dance instruction in the past, I think I was truly living up to my ¨gringa¨ title at first, but hope I redeemed myself slightly in the end. After more classes in the next several weeks, I am sure I´ll be hitting up Soul Train - Latin America. :) It was actually quite a workout as well!
And the final news for today.... I made my first friend today! Well, first friend that I have met completely on my own that is. I was running around the neighborhood this morning and as I was returning to the school a fellow gringa asked me if I knew where a local museum was. She is from Tennessee and goes to school at U of Tenn but is currently an exchange student taking a semester of classes at a nearby University here. It turns out that she lives just a block from the school here! She asked me if I was a student as well and I explained that I was studying Spanish now but would be going to Limón to work at the church and teach English. She asked me about the church and my church back home and was thrilled to find that I was a Christian. Apparently I am the first American that is a Christian that she has met since coming here in January. Anyway, she said she would love to hang out sometime so I gave her my phone number. How crazy.
This weekend I am headed to Manuel Antonio with Pili (my other teacher) and her sister. They have an uncle that lives there that we can stay with. It is supposed to be a gorgeous Pacific coast beach city with lots of monkeys to be seen! I am sure I will have stories to report...
Adios!
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