Que Rico!

Hola Amiguitos! I have many tales to tell you and little time in which to do it! The first is that I feel i have regressed in time (and just forget you know about punctuation right now), don't know why, but any time I fall asleep I forget my name and my language, and where I was born. I feel like I've learned mucho mucho spanish in the short 3or 4 days Ive been here in Costa Rica, and right now I'm on the verge of hysterical exhaustion. Wave after wave of Spanish, day and night, and coffee coming out my ears. I found Sean's comment in his adventure newsletter about the woman rubbing his head SO funny that I chortled outloud in the ACM computer lab, causing people to drop pots of steaming hot coffee, birds to shriek and topple out of the trees, and the bus drivers to cease using their horns.

One saying the 'Ticos' use often is 'Que rico' which means litterally how rich, or more figuratively how beautiful or how tasty, etc. It can be used on any thing from me to food to the weather. Pretty funny. I've taken to using it in any odd situation I can think of for pure entertainment purposes. Another funny one is to add Super- to the begining of any word. Like Super-amigo or super-caliente.

On another note, I met my project advisor today, and much to my deeply embedded confusion in my head I had to and have to do the whole thing in Spanish. Write the paper, give the presentation, todo todo, en espanol. Ay! But on the other hand, my advisor is about 36, young and restless, and so we're planning a weekend trip to Panama, pretty cool eh?
the food here is pretty much the same for EVERY meal, unless you make your own lunch. Meat of your choice, with rice and black beans, sometimes salad, and sometimes beets. Lots of bread and juice. And did I mention the coffee. Oh.......let's not even go there, you know how I am. Bueno, my host mother is coming for me soon. I feel like such a baby because the other kids only had their mamas hold their hand on the first day, but this is a big scary spanish speaking city, and I'm going ot take advantage of her guidance while I can!!! For now until next time, when I have cuentos (stories) to tell you and when I have more time to collect my head for a little English immersion! Hasta Luego!
Megan
La gringita
Americanita