Bye, Bye Orosi

I can´t believe our week of training is actually over! It felt like the longest week of my life, but I LOVED it! Right now I´m in a hostel in San Jose with all of the other volunteers. We all leave for our different sites in the morning. The bus trip from Orosi to San Jose was uneventful, but it was long...and tiring. The first bus was about half an hour to Cartago then we had to drag our luggage (mine weighing 80 LBS of course) 8 blocks to the main bus terminal in Cartago. We then took another bus to San Jose...which was about an hour. Once in San Jose we dragged our luggage about 4 blocks to Casa Yoses. I know for next time to PACK LESS! San Jose is much nicer and bigger than I thought it would be. The city is SUPER busy and btw...the cars here are FEARLESS! Pedestrians NEVER have the right of way...even in a crosswalk...and I´m telling you...there have been several times when I was afraid for my life. SCARY! So after 3 hours of traveling all I wanted was a shower and it was the best thing in the world! I got to shave my legs for the first time in 8 days...I washed my hair and actually got to blow dry it! AWESOME! I found the little things make me happy here :) We all went out to dinner tonight at a place called Antonjitos and it was pretty good. My group is awesome and we all had a blast. People are talking about going out dancing tonight, but I´m not sure if I¨m up for it...it´s getting late and tomorrow´s going to be a LONG day!

Teaching on Thursday went much better than expected! The kids were great and the time flew by. I´m a lot less nervous about teaching now...but, I´m still really axious to get to Quebrada Grande and meet the kids! On our last night night in Orosi they threw a baile (dance) for us at the Spanish school called Otiac. We got to bring our host families and we learned how to salsa! The families of Orosi were so amazing and welcoming. I´m really going to miss it there. I don´t speak a lot of Spanish, but my host family and I got really good at charades! It´s been great!