Atenas

Hola todos! It´s me again! It´s day 4 and I´m starting to feel like I belong more. I have had intense one-on-one spanish lessons every morning. It tends to drain me =) Atenas is a really beautiful and friendly town. Anytime you walk by someone on the street they say adios or at least smile. I am living here until Tuesday and then for like 2 days before I return to the states. Alicia y Victor are very very nice. I am treated so well. They don´t speak any english so I have to get by on my poor spanish lol, but they seem to understand me most of the time. Everyday I wake up and have breakfast waiting for me, a plate of fresh fruit and then something else (cereal or breads of some sort). After breakfast I walk two houses down to my spanish class. The "school" as it is called (Atesa) is gorgeous! There orange trees all throughout and they conduct their classes under these really nice patio type of things. It´s really fun to be studying and temporarily get distracted by a gecko or a butterfly. What can I say it´s gorgous here. Now althought the scenery is pretty and I´m making it sound amazing the weather isn´t always amazing. It typically rains every afternoon. So it is generally really hot and humid during the day. The evenings are to die for though. I always fall asleep with the bugs singing and a cool breeze coming through my window.

With the program that I am on they offer cooking and dancing lessons. Monday night I had my cooking class and we were shown how to make empenadas and cocconut cookies. It was fun to hang out with some other volunteers and meet another family. I can´t wait to try out my recipes in the states =) Tonight I have my dancing class so I will have a chance to shake my latina hips haha. It should be pretty fun. We have to travel to los angeles (a nearby town) I´ll be sure to fill you in at a later time.

I will be heading to Monteverde this upcoming weekend with some friends and I will finally be able to go on a zip line ahhh!! Crazy I know! We are planning on visiting La Fortuna as well which is home to one of Costa Rica´s famous volcanos. All in all, things are well. I will be leaving for Matapalo on Tuesday so my turtle adventures will begin shortly after. I´ll do my best to keep you all updated.

Much love!