Día del Padre, Fiesta de Pijamas, Cumpleaños, y Más

Fiesta de Pijamas!

Coffeeeee :)

So it looks like once again, I'm failing at keeping this up-to-date, and I'm going to have to crunch a bunch of stuff into this post. For Father's Day, my host mom and I went to her son's house for a wonderful lunch and spent the afternoon with them. She has two grandkids--one that's five and one that's only a few months old. Both were VERY adorable. That night, all the girls that I'm friends with here had a slumber party. We had tons of ice cream, Pringles, smores (in the microwave), oreos, popcorn, and wine. We sang karoke (or attempted to since we didn't know the songs) and watched movies. It was so much fun! Then in the morning, we went to tour Cafe Britt's plantation. It was really interesting to see how they grow the coffee and learn about how to make a good cup of coffee and how to properly taste, describe, and critique the coffee. Then, we got to sample all the kinds they have, and I bought a bunch to bring back!

Me and mom on her birthday

This past week I got a cell phone! I wish I had gotten one earlier because now I don't feel as isolated from the rest of the students here. It makes life much simpler and was really cheap because my mom had an extra old phone (from 2005, but it works!). Thursday was my mom's birthday and Friday was my neighbor's birthday so we went out for dinner and drinks Thursday night. It was a lot of fun.

Other birthday boy

Ok, so I guess I really haven't done that much to write about, because I've just been trying to spend time with the people here and work on my Spanish. I'm really going to miss it though. I only have a week left, and I can tell I'm going to be extremely upset when I leave. I'm going to miss my friends from the States, my host mom, tico time, the smell of clothes that have been hung up to dry in the sun, having like 6 servings of fruit every day, seeing palm trees everywhere, brightly colored houses, hugs and kisses to greet people instead of handshakes, and just things about the culture that I can't put into words. Things I'm looking forward to about going home: seeing family and friends, hot showers, not having rice and beans three times a day, church, driving my car, and convincing everyone to move to Costa Rica with me in the near future :)