Half Way

As of this weekend our time here is half way over. It feels like it’s gone so quickly but at the same time when I think back to my first week it feels like forever ago! That also means that my mama and brother come in a month and I can’t wait! I do have a lot of anxiety about it though because we have to drive and the drivers here are crazy!!! Speaking of driving though, last week I came home from school to find my mom and sister sitting at the kitchen table and before I can even say hello they ask me if I have my license. I said yes but I couldn’t remember if I brought it, and my sister tells me “Great! You don’t need to have your license to drive, just your passport!” I’m pretty sure that’s not actually true, and I kept asking if they were sure, but my sister insisted I take my mom and youngest niece to pick up my other niece from school since she was late for work. Thankfully her school isn’t downtown because I can hardly handle driving in downtown Portland, and I don’t think we’re actually supposed to drive here (so shh!) but I drove! I called Kristin freaking out, and asked her to come with us in case I needed her to yell at me in English so I could respond faster J I didn’t realize how much I missed driving!

This weekend we had a short fieldtrip to Volcano Miravalles, which is on the Pacific coast of Guanacaste. Friday was pretty boring in the morning and afternoon because we went to two energy plantations to learn about windmills and geothermic energy… We stayed at a nice hotel though that had hot springs from the volcano so we got to swim and relax. On Saturday morning we went to the actual hot springs which were beautiful! We went to the hot springs and put the mud on ourselves, I wasn’t so into that so I only put some on my arms, and then we went to a waterfall to wash off.

Today we have a free day so I’m spending the day with my family and studying around the house. It’s nice to have time to spend with my family-I always feel bad because I’m gone on the weekends when my family is free, but last weekend I got to spend all of Sunday and Monday with them because we didn’t have classes. I went to the movies with them and played games all of Sunday. Then in the evening we went to a family going away party for my brother-in-law since he was leaving for Miami. On Monday we dropped my brother-in-law off at the airport and my sister and two nieces and I went shopping in San Jose for the day.