Archive for November, 2007
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007Click Photo to Enlarge
Attending any festive activity for the first time in a different culture is always interesting. Different foods and rituals, one never knows what to expect! We received an invitation to the birthday party of Josué and Ariana. The party was to start at 4pm and guests didn’t start arriving until 4:30ish and […]
Living and Laughing…
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007Click Photo to Enlarge
One of the benefits of living with a Tico family is having native Spanish speakers all round us. As was mentioned in our prior post, Noel and Roxana are our host parents. They have two grandchildren, Ariana (6 yrs) and Josué (9 yrs), who affectionately call us “Gringitos” (white people). These two […]
Meet our Host Family
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007Click Photo to Enlarge
Meet our host parents Noel and Roxana. Noel works at a facility where he teaches recovering drug addicts skills, such as woodworking, so they can eventually be productive members of society. Roxana is a Spanish tutor for students at the language institute we’ll be attending in January. They have three grown children, […]
Barefoot Language School
Friday, November 2nd, 2007Click Photo to Enlarge
Since language school doesn’t officially begin until January, we’ve been spending our mornings in conversational Spanish language classes with our teacher Olga. Most every day we have homework assignments that require us to go somewhere to engage in conversations about interesting facts and customs of Costa Rica. One of the things I […]