Sorry I know these next two blogs are overdue but here goes... September 15th was Costa Rica's Independence Day. They gained their independence that day from Spain along with Guatamala, Honduras, and Nicuragua I believe. So every year, they have a torch that starts in Guatamala on the 11th and travels to the north of Costa Rica by the 14th. Their flag colors are red, white, and blue as well so you see decorations with these colors everywhere. The children a...

Well we are still enjoying ourselves here in San Jose and we are learning a lot about the culture and differences between life here and back in the States. Here are some things we've learned about the culture down here: 1. Coffee is the best drink there is. They will drink it all day long and as far as they are concerned they have the best coffee in the world. Every afternoon Ticos (the name for Costa Ricans) sit down for cafecito! It's just a nice afterno...

It's been almost two weeks that we have been in Costa Rica! We are having a wonderful time! We are all done orientation and we started classes on Tuesday. They are hard but fun for the most part. We have grammar class together twice in a row in the morning where we learn lots of vocabulary and conjugating. Next, we have separate phonetics classes. In this class, I feel like an infant talking babel. I just repeat over and over again syllables so that I can u...

On Monday morning, we woke up at 1:30 after about an hour of sleep, got ready, and left for our two hour drive to Pittsburg airport. Our first flight took off at 6:30am and we landed in Miami. From there it was a straight flight to San Jose, Costa Rica! When we arrived, we met our big sister Chelsea at the airport. She is the one who coordinated everything for our stay here. She is also staying in the same house as us. We then came to our new home for the next ...