Friday, February 02, 2007, 7:11pm
Well as you might get to see in the photo, I am shamefully sunburned. Yes, it is only the 6th day I’ve been here, and yes I was not at the beach playing in the sun, or in the rainforest, but exploring the city of San Jose with my classmates and afterwards picnicking in a park with all our host families, playing ‘futbol’ (soccer) and Frisbee.
This is how I came about having a severe burn, and the most unfortunate part is that I was wearing a short sleeved v-neck shirt. Aye! Que lastima! (what a shame!). When I arrived home my mom proceeded to explain to me that I looked like a chameleon and then later that I had ‘un gran collar’ or a great necklace. All I can do is grimace and slather on the aloe vera. The other sad part is that I AM going to the beach tomorrow (to try to burn something else, right?), and if this isn’t better by tomorrow, I’m going to have to stay out of the sun or I don’t know, buy some body paint.
Today in our Spanish grammar class our prof told us, you know, you just have to get creative with language sometimes. We continued on to learn how to tweak our words to add emphasis to them and now its ‘pura moda’ (totally fashion) to use. For example—if you are saying something is ‘rico’ or rich, you change it to ‘riquisimo’. And if you want to add more emphasis you add more –si- like ‘riquisisisiSIsimo’. You can also say ‘requete rico’ or ‘requete riquisimo’ or super-requete riquisisisisiSIsimo’. SUPER-FUN! I like.
Today we toured San Jose, and our profs showed us all of the dangerous places that we shouldn’t go. Before I learned about this tour, I thought we were in San Jose already, but en realidad we were only in a little sub-city that’s called San Pedro. That’s where ACM is. I felt like I couldn’t focus much because I was preoccupied with taking care of my own security, trying to interpret all of their ‘consejos’ (recommendations) in Spanish, watching a little old man trip and land on his face, trying to determine how to distinguish Banco Nacional from Banco Popular, it was just so much for my brain to take in.
I think they like to take this much care because their have been incidences and they want us to be prepared for anything. For example, only last semester a girl and guy from ACM were ‘held up’ by an armed guy (I know how to say this more gracefully in Spanish), but luckily escaped.
When Estevan (student from St. Olaf) and I took the bus back home, I can honestly say that I’ve never been on a bus so full of people! The bus seats 50 and there were probably 75 on the bus. It was near impossible to get off, but I escaped without losing any possessions or monedas ‘por dicha’ (luckily). Bueno, tomorrow, I have to catch the bus to the playa (beach) at 6:30a.m. and I have to leave my house to get to the bus stop at 5:15. Super-bueno no? I’ll be getting pictures up soon, and I liked Sean’s idea so I obtained a similar website. It should be great. Talk to you all soon!
Con Amor,
Megancita
La gringita riquiSIsima!
Well as you might get to see in the photo, I am shamefully sunburned. Yes, it is only the 6th day I’ve been here, and yes I was not at the beach playing in the sun, or in the rainforest, but exploring the city of San Jose with my classmates and afterwards picnicking in a park with all our host families, playing ‘futbol’ (soccer) and Frisbee.
This is how I came about having a severe burn, and the most unfortunate part is that I was wearing a short sleeved v-neck shirt. Aye! Que lastima! (what a shame!). When I arrived home my mom proceeded to explain to me that I looked like a chameleon and then later that I had ‘un gran collar’ or a great necklace. All I can do is grimace and slather on the aloe vera. The other sad part is that I AM going to the beach tomorrow (to try to burn something else, right?), and if this isn’t better by tomorrow, I’m going to have to stay out of the sun or I don’t know, buy some body paint.
Today in our Spanish grammar class our prof told us, you know, you just have to get creative with language sometimes. We continued on to learn how to tweak our words to add emphasis to them and now its ‘pura moda’ (totally fashion) to use. For example—if you are saying something is ‘rico’ or rich, you change it to ‘riquisimo’. And if you want to add more emphasis you add more –si- like ‘riquisisisiSIsimo’. You can also say ‘requete rico’ or ‘requete riquisimo’ or super-requete riquisisisisiSIsimo’. SUPER-FUN! I like.
Today we toured San Jose, and our profs showed us all of the dangerous places that we shouldn’t go. Before I learned about this tour, I thought we were in San Jose already, but en realidad we were only in a little sub-city that’s called San Pedro. That’s where ACM is. I felt like I couldn’t focus much because I was preoccupied with taking care of my own security, trying to interpret all of their ‘consejos’ (recommendations) in Spanish, watching a little old man trip and land on his face, trying to determine how to distinguish Banco Nacional from Banco Popular, it was just so much for my brain to take in.
I think they like to take this much care because their have been incidences and they want us to be prepared for anything. For example, only last semester a girl and guy from ACM were ‘held up’ by an armed guy (I know how to say this more gracefully in Spanish), but luckily escaped.
When Estevan (student from St. Olaf) and I took the bus back home, I can honestly say that I’ve never been on a bus so full of people! The bus seats 50 and there were probably 75 on the bus. It was near impossible to get off, but I escaped without losing any possessions or monedas ‘por dicha’ (luckily). Bueno, tomorrow, I have to catch the bus to the playa (beach) at 6:30a.m. and I have to leave my house to get to the bus stop at 5:15. Super-bueno no? I’ll be getting pictures up soon, and I liked Sean’s idea so I obtained a similar website. It should be great. Talk to you all soon!
Con Amor,
Megancita
La gringita riquiSIsima!
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