Estoy en Costa Rica

I am so exhausted and overwhelmed right now I can't even think straight.

I am finally in San Jose, Costa Rica! I am sitting in my new bedroom at my host families house right now trying to stay awake long enough to write about my day. I started off by waking up this morning after only two hours of sleep. Which left me cranky and stressed. However, I finally got to the airport where I dragged my heels for almost an hour trying to prolong the dreaded goodbye to Jesse. We eventually sucked it up and I was on my way!

The flight from Spokane to Phoenix wasn't too bad because I slept all but ten minutes of it. I stayed awake for the 5 and a half hour flight from Phoenix to San Jose but I had two awesome seat mates and we talked for almost the entire flight. The lady on my left is doing a research project down here in Costa Rica and the girl on my right is meeting her boyfriend here for a road trip adventure. It was a lot of fun but I was so glad to stand up by the time we finally got to San Jose. I disembarked, went through immigration and got my luggage before finally finding the people from my program. I checked in and found out that we had to wait for another flight to come in. So there we were, 25 students, every one of us excited to see Costa Rica and we ended up spending the first hour standing on the sidewalk outside of the airport. The only thing we could really see were ads for Best Western and Holiday Inn . . . In English! Go figure.

Eventually we were herded onto a bus and we set off for Veritas University. Once we got there, a lady with a clip board called my name, pointed to a lady and said "Here's your new family." The host mom starts talking to me in Spanish, I'm trying to grab my suitcase, all these people are swarming around me blocking me in. Oh man. It was crazy! Finally my host mom gets frustrated and grabs my backpack and throws it in a car. We pile in and Thank God she brought her granddaughter with her because she could sort of explain what was going on and where we were going. We drove around in circles until I was hopelessly lost and just beginning to wonder where these strangers were taking me when we stopped in front of this adorable little house with a tile patio and two metal fences all around it. I tried to explain to them that I thought the tile was gorgeous but they just giggled. I have a feeling that this will happen often. ^_^

I didn't really know what I was supposed to be doing and I couldn't understand a thing they were saying. However, they eventually asked me Tiene Hambre, which if you know me at all then you won't be surprised that I knew that they were asking me if I was hungry. I jumped all over that and then they asked me if I liked Taco Bell burritos.

So yes, my first night in Costa Rica I ate Taco Bell.